Critical Approaches to Life Writing Methods in Qualitative Research by Thalia M. Mulvihill Raji Swaminathan

Author:Thalia M. Mulvihill, Raji Swaminathan [Thalia M. Mulvihill, Raji Swaminathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138642997
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

Performative Autoethnography

Tami Spry uses autoethnographic performance to create and share new methods of life writing. Spry writes about performing autoethnography as a “concentrating on the body as the site from which the story is generated” (Spry, 2001, p. 708). She identified this life writing approach as “a vehicle of emancipation from cultural and familial identity scripts” (Spry, 2001, p. 708) and a means to “dialogically look back upon myself as other, generating critical agency in the stories of my life, as the polyglot facets of self and other engage, interrogate, and embrace” (Spry, 2001, p. 708).

Anna Deavere Smith—professor, artist, actress, playwright, and founding director of the Institute of the Arts and Civic Dialogue—creates live performances derived from ethnographic fieldnotes, interviews, artifacts, and at times autoethnographic research. Her theatrical performances are perhaps the most sophisticated translations of oral history and ethnographic observations that have yet to be created and performed for audiences around the world. Her most recent project explored the school-to-prison pipeline, referred to as the Pipeline Project (2016). To get a glimpse of Anna Deavere Smith’s performative, autoethnographic, life writing work, look at the following:

https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_deavere_smith_s_american_character?language=en

http://annadeaveresmithprojects.net/

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