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Troubling Violence: A Performance Project

by M. Heather Carver , Elaine J. Lawless
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781604738698
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 160
  • Original Price: GBP 26.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 223 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Abuse / General

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. M. Heather Carver is associate professor of performance studies and theatre at the University of Missouri. She is coeditor of Voices Made Flesh: Performing Women's Autobiography. Elaine J. Lawless is professor of English at the University of Missouri. She is the author of several books, including Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment through Narrative. She is president of the American Folklore Society.

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