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- Troubling Violence: A Performance Project
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University Press of Mississippi
summary
Troubling Violence: A Performance Project follows the collaboration between performance studies professor M. Heather Carver and ethnographic folklorist Elaine J. Lawless. The book traces the creative development of a performance troupe in which women take the stage to narrate true, harrowing experiences of domestic violence and then invite audience members to discuss the tales. Similar to the performances, the book presents real-life narratives as a means of heightening social awareness and dialogue about intimate partner violence."Troubling violence" refers not only to the cultures in our society that are "troubling," but also to the authors' intent to "trouble" perceptions that enforce social, cultural, legal, and religious attitudes that perpetuate abuse against women. Performance, this book argues, enhances ethnographic research and writing by allowing ethnographers to approach both their field studies and their ethnographic writing as performance. The book also demonstrates how ethnography enhances the study of performance. The authors discuss the development of the Troubling Violence Performance Project in conjunction with their own "performances" within the academy.
Table of Contents
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- The Pre-Show
- pp. 3-15
- Act I
- The Academic Stage
- pp. 21-28
- Character Development
- pp. 29-34
- Breaking the Fourth Wall
- pp. 44-59
- Performing Violence
- pp. 60-101
- Act II
- Writing the Body
- pp. 105-106
- Violence against Our Bodies
- pp. 107-115
- Violence at Home
- pp. 116-131
- Curtain Call
- pp. 132-134
- A Courtroom Scene
- pp. 135-141
- A Conference Scene
- pp. 142-144
- Life, with No Chance
- pp. 145-149
- Bibliography
- pp. 151-158
Additional Information
ISBN
9781604733471
Related ISBN(s)
9781604732085
MARC Record
OCLC
472607784
Pages
160
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No