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Home and Away explores how performative writing serve as a process that critically interrogates space/place in relation to personal, social, cultural, and political understanding.
By combining aesthetic expression and inquiry with critical reflection, the contributors in this volume use a variety of narrative strategies-autoethnography, mystoriography, creative cartography, the lyric essay, fictocriticism, collage, the screenplay, and poetics-to position place as the starting point for the aesthetic impulse. The anthology showcases the power and potential of performative writing to illustrate the ways we interact with and in place; provides examples of the ways one can express lived experience; and demonstrates the ways discourses overlap while extending our understanding of identity and place, whether one is home or away. Although the chapters are fixed by their literary form in this volume, many of chapters are best realized in a performance or shared publicly via an oral tradition.
This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance, communication studies, and literature.
List of contents
List of Images
Acknowledgements
"Poetics, Performativity, and the Personal Narrative: An Introduction"
Leigh Anne Howard
Chapter 1: "Rural Ruins as Sites for Excavating Memory, Materiality, and Metaphor"
Lindsay P. Greer
Chapter 2: "Riding the Hippogriff: \Fandom, Performance, and Place in the Wizarding World—An Autoethnographic, Fictocritical (Unfilmable) Screenplay"
Daniel W. Heaton
Chapter 3: "Pilgrimage to Paisley Park: A Mystory"
Charla Markham Shaw
Chapter 4: "Walking, Wandering, Writing: The 2017 Women’s March and the Celebration of Disruption"
Leigh Anne Howard
Chapter 5: "Wandering New Orleans: Grammar of the Legs as Creative Production"
Sarah K. Jackson
Chapter 6: "Walking in the City: Intersections of Identity, Space, and Place"
Nicole Costantini
Chapter 7: "Sherman’s March on Columbia, Searching for Green Pipes, Eating Tacos and Shooting Yankees: Tales from a Self-Guided Tour and Shelling Reenactment"
Jason B. Munsell
Chapter 8: "Home, Awareness, Space"
Julia Galbus Kiesel
Chapter 9: "’Well, At Least This Isn’t As Bad As ’78’: Using Stories to Make Sense of the Ohio Blizzard of 1978"
Sharon E. Croft
Chapter 10: "When Home Goes From Being a Place to Being a Person: A Critical Autoethnography of Identity, Culture, and Geography"
Mark P. Orbe
Chapter 11: "Performing Pilgrimage, Mourning, and Transformation on the Camino de Santiago"
Tracy Stephenson Shaffer
About the Contributors
Index
About the author
Leigh Anne Howard is Professor of Communication Studies and Chairperson of the Department of Communication at the University of Southern Indiana, USA. She studies the intersection of performance, culture, and identity, as well as critical performance pedagogy. Her most recent publication is Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative (Routledge, 2020), co-edited with Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw.
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Home and Away explores how performative writing serve as a process that critically interrogates space/place in relation to personal, social, cultural, and political understanding.
