Description
Book SynopsisIn Performative Memoir: Moving between Worlds, Theresa Carilli and Adrienne Viramontes construct a new genre of writing, performative memoir. Drawing on scholarship in performance studies and autoethnography, the authors outline a methodology for studying autoethnography, performance, and memoir in a new creative process. Carilli and Viramontes then demonstrate the process by creating their own performative memoirs, titled “Loving Crazy” and “Mexican Love,” and perform a close reading of each memoir to show how these theories can be applied to our own personal experiences and trauma. Scholars of performance studies, communication, media studies, cultural studies, and trauma studies will find this book particularly useful.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface: Performative Memoir: The Methodology of a Creative Process
Theresa Carilli and Adrienne Viramontes
- Performative Memoir: From Nostalgia to Recovery
Theresa Carilli and Adrienne Viramontes
- The Performative Memoir as Spiritual Practice
Adrienne Viramontes
- Loving Crazy: A Performative Memoir
Theresa Carilli
- Mexican Love: A Performative Memoir
Adrienne Viramontes
- Making Sense, Making Peace: An Analysis of “Loving Crazy” as a Performative Memoir
Theresa Carilli
- The Art of Living Through Performative Memoir: Four Phases
Adrienne Viramontes
- Performative Memoir: Crossroads of Communication Scholarship
Theresa Carilli and Adrienne Viramontes
Selected References
About the Authors
