Writing Performance, Identity, and Everyday Life: The Selected Works of Ronald J. Pelias

ISBN-13: 9780367592110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 294 str.

Ronald J. Pelias

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This book invites the reader into Ronald J. Pelias’ world of artistic and everyday performance. Calling upon a broad range of qualitative methods, these selected writings from Pelias submerge themselves in the evocative and embodied, in the material and consequential, often creating moving accounts of their topics.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Way In

Part I: Foundational Logics

Chapter 1. Performative Inquiry: Embodiment and Its Challenges

Chapter 2. Writing Autoethnography: The Personal, Poetic, and Performative as Compositional Strategies

Chapter 3. Performative Writing as Scholarship: An Argument, An Anecdote

Chapter 4. Performative Writing: The Ethics of Representation in Form and Body

Chapter 5. Writing into Position: Strategies for Composition and Evaluation

Chapter 6. Pledging Personal Allegiance to Qualitative Inquiry

Part II: Performance

Chapter 7. A Paradigm for Performance Studies with James Vanoosting

Chapter 8. Empathy: Some Implications of Social Cognition Research for Interpretation Study

Chapter 9. Performance Studies: Meditations and Mediations

Chapter 10. Performance Is…

Chapter 11. Confessions of an Apprehensive Performer

Chapter 12. Toward a Poetic Phenomenology of Performance with Lesa Lockford

Chapter 13. Seductions

Part III: Identity

Chapter 14. The DEF Comedy Jam, bell hooks, and Me

Chapter 15. My Body’s Placement: An Autoethnographic Account of Communicative Practice

Chapter 16. Making My Masculine Body Behave

Chapter 17. Jarheads, Girly Men, and the Pleasures of Violence

Chapter 18. A Personal History of Lust on Bourbon Street

Part IV: Everyday Life

Chapter 19. Remembering Vietnam

Chapter 20. The Critical Life

Chapter 21. The Academic Tourist: An Autoethnography

Chapter 22. Always Dying: Living Between Da and Fort

Chapter 23. For Father and Son: An Ethnodrama with No Catharsis

Chapter 24. Remains

Chapter 25. The End of an Academic Career: The Desperate Attempt to Hang On and Let Go

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Ronald J. Pelias is currently teaching part-time in the theatre program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His most recent books exploring qualitative methods are Leaning: A Poetics of Personal Relations (2011), Performance: An Alphabet of Performative Writing (2014), and If the Truth Be Told: Accounts in Literary Forms (2016).