Troubling Violence: A Performance Project

Carver, M. Heather; Lawless, Elaine J.

ISBN 10: 1604738693 / ISBN 13: 9781604738698

Editore: University Press of Mississippi, 2010

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A study of a performing troupe in which women narrate the trauma of domestic violence Troubling Violence: A Performance Project follows the collaboration between performance studies professor M. Heather Carver and ethnographic folklorist Elaine J. Lawless. The book traces the creative development of a performance troupe in which women take the stage to narrate true, harrowing experiences of domestic violence and then invite audience members to discuss the tales. Similar to the performances, the book presents real-life narratives as a means of heightening social awareness and dialogue about intimate partner violence. "Troubling violence" refers not only to the cultures in our society that are "troubling," but also to the authors' intent to "trouble" perceptions that enforce social, cultural, legal, and religious attitudes that perpetuate abuse against women. Performance, this book argues, enhances ethnographic research and writing by allowing ethnographers to approach both their field studies and their ethnographic writing as performance. The book also demonstrates how ethnography enhances the study of performance. The authors discuss the development of the Troubling Violence Performance Project in conjunction with their own "performances" within the academy.

Informazioni sull?autore: <b>M. Heather Carver</b> is associate professor of performance studies and theatre at the University of Missouri. She is coeditor of <i>Voices Made Flesh: Performing Women's Autobiography</i>. <b>Elaine J. Lawless</b> is professor emerita at University of Missouri. She is author of six books and coauthor (with David Todd Lawrence) of <i>When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri</i>, published by University Press of Mississippi. With David Todd Lawrence, she also coproduced the documentary film <i>Taking Pinhook</i>, available on YouTube or at www.RebuildPinhook.org.

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Titolo: Troubling Violence: A Performance Project
Casa editrice: University Press of Mississippi
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: very_good