1st Edition

"Shards" as Autoethnographic Performance A Story of Jewish Emigration, Immigration, and the Search for Home

By Evan Kent Copyright 2024
126 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

126 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

126 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

"Shards" as Autoethnographic Performance explores the development, creation, and presentation of performed autoethnography. The author shares the impetus for the work’s creation and his method for writing and rehearsing performed autoethnography. This book is essentially an autoethnography about writing and performing an autoethnography and functions as a "play within a play." Through... Read more

1 Before "Shards"

2 Writing Shards

3 Moving from Writing to Performance

4 Performing Shards Before the COVID-19 Pandemic

5 Autoethnographic Performance During Covid

6 Beyond Covid and Epilogue

Index

Biography

Evan Kent currently lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, and teaches qualitative research methods at the Levinsky-Wingate Academic Center. In addition, Evan also teaches traditional and contemporary synagogue music at the Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion, Israel.