1st Edition

Autoethnography and the Other Unsettling Power through Utopian Performatives

By Tami Spry Copyright 2016
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

Challenging the critique of autoethnography as overly focused on the self, Tami Spry calls for a performative autoethnography that both unsettles the "I" and represents the Other with equal commitment. Expanding on her popular book  Body, Paper, Stage , Spry uses a variety of examples, literary forms, and theoretical traditions to reframe this research method as transgressive, liberatory, and... Read more
Preface
Introduction: Who Are “We” in Autoethnography?
Chapter One: The Inappropriate/d Other
Chapter Two: The Unsettled-I
Chapter Three: The Willful Embodiment of “We”: Embodying Utopian Performatives
Chapter Four: Utopian Reflexivities of Hope
Chapter Five: Performing Collaborations with Others: Group Performance of Autoethnography
Chapter Six: Willful Choices
References
Index

Biography

Spry, Tami