1st Edition

Home and Away Lived Experience in Performative Narratives

Edited By Leigh Anne Howard Copyright 2022
222 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

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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

Biography

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.