Writing performance, identity, and everyday life : the selected works of Ronald J. Pelias /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pelias, Ronald J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.
Series:World library of educationalists series.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I. Foundational logics. Performative inquiry: embodiment and its challenges
  • Writing autoethnography: the personal, poetic, and performative as compositional strategies
  • Performative writing as scholarship: an argument, an anecdote
  • Performative writing: the ethics of representation in form and body
  • Writing into position: Strategies for composition and evaluation
  • Pledging personal allegiance to qualitative inquiry ; PART II. Performance. A paradigm for performance studies
  • Empathy: some implications of social cognition research for interpretation study
  • Performance studies: meditations and mediations
  • Performance is . . .
  • Confessions of an apprehensive performer
  • Toward a poetic phenomenology of performance
  • Seductions ; PART III. Identity. The DEF Comedy Jam, bell hooks, and me
  • My body's placement: an autoethnographic account of communicative practice
  • Making my masculine body behave
  • Jarheads, girly men, and the pleasures of violence
  • A personal history of lust on Bourbon Street ; PART IV. Everyday life. Remembering Vietnam
  • The critical life
  • The academic tourist: a critical ethnography
  • Always dying: living between da and fort
  • For father and son: an ethnodrama with no catharsis
  • Remains
  • The end of an academic career: the desperate attempt to hang on and let go.