1st Edition
Writing Performance, Identity, and Everyday Life The Selected Works of Ronald J. Pelias
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Way In
Part I: Foundational Logics
Chapter 1. Performative Inquiry: Embodiment and Its Challenges
Chapter 2. Writing Autoethnography: The Personal, Poetic, and Performative as Compositional Strategies
Chapter 3. Performative Writing as Scholarship: An Argument, An Anecdote
Chapter 4. Performative Writing: The Ethics of Representation in Form and Body
Chapter 5. Writing into Position: Strategies for Composition and Evaluation
Chapter 6. Pledging Personal Allegiance to Qualitative Inquiry
Part II: Performance
Chapter 7. A Paradigm for Performance Studies with James Vanoosting
Chapter 8. Empathy: Some Implications of Social Cognition Research for Interpretation Study
Chapter 9. Performance Studies: Meditations and Mediations
Chapter 10. Performance Is…
Chapter 11. Confessions of an Apprehensive Performer
Chapter 12. Toward a Poetic Phenomenology of Performance with Lesa Lockford
Chapter 13. Seductions
Part III: Identity
Chapter 14. The DEF Comedy Jam, bell hooks, and Me
Chapter 15. My Body’s Placement: An Autoethnographic Account of Communicative Practice
Chapter 16. Making My Masculine Body Behave
Chapter 17. Jarheads, Girly Men, and the Pleasures of Violence
Chapter 18. A Personal History of Lust on Bourbon Street
Part IV: Everyday Life
Chapter 19. Remembering Vietnam
Chapter 20. The Critical Life
Chapter 21. The Academic Tourist: An Autoethnography
Chapter 22. Always Dying: Living Between Da and Fort
Chapter 23. For Father and Son: An Ethnodrama with No Catharsis
Chapter 24. Remains
Chapter 25. The End of an Academic Career: The Desperate Attempt to Hang On and Let Go
Biography
Ronald J. Pelias is currently teaching part-time in the theatre program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His most recent books exploring qualitative methods are Leaning: A Poetics of Personal Relations (2011), Performance: An Alphabet of Performative Writing (2014), and If the Truth Be Told: Accounts in Literary Forms (2016).
If you’re new to Ron Pelias’ work, you’ll find treasure here: riches you will not tire of, that will reward you for what you give - time, attention, openness. If you’re already familiar with Pelias' work, or think you are, you might need to reconsider: the range, depth and sheer beauty of Pelias' writing will take you somewhere new. There’s treasure here for you too. This is a vibrant collection of texts from a giant of qualitative inquiry.Jonathan Wyatt, Senior Lecturer, Director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry, The University of Edinburgh
