Scripting Identity
Writing Cultural Experience
Published on 7. March 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
92 pages
978-0-7618-3929-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Scripting Identity: Writing Cultural Experience, Theresa Carilli explores how understanding one's identity can assist in the process of writing a performative script. After a brief review of how the Performance Studies discipline interprets the act of performative writing, Carilli shares her own methodology for creating performative texts. By introducing the concept of the primary narrative-the story that is at the core of one's identity-the study demonstrates how several of her students at a working-class university campus (surrounded and influenced by a steel mill culture) exemplify how the primary narrative operates in their narrative creations. With the proposed methodology and scripts as examples, Carilli builds dialogue about new ways to study the communication process.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
161 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-3929-3 (9780761839293)
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Person
Theresa Carilli, Ph.D., is a Professor of Communication and Creative Arts at Purdue University Calumet. She has written two books of plays, Women as Lovers and Familial Circles, and co-edited two anthologies: Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media and Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives. Carilli has guest-edited Voices in Italian Americana and the Global Media Journal. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois.
Content
Part 1 Acknowledgements
Part 2 The Great Hartford Circus Fire
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 Performative Writing and the Primary Narrative
Chapter 5 Scripting Identity Using the Primary Narrative
Chapter 6 Adrienne Viramontes: I Had Been A White Reflection Script One: Deconstructing the Oreo
Chapter 7 Dave Fanno: The Pit! Script Two: The Coke Plant
Chapter 8 Jennifer Bianchi: I Was Terrified Script Three: A Letter to Sam
Chapter 9 Erin Okamoto Protsman: The Child, The Flower, and The Rifle Script Four: Excerpt from Without Due Process
Chapter 10 Ami Kleminski: Cross-dressing to Survive Script Five: I Am Not Contained between My Boots and My Hat
Chapter 11 William Boggs: What My Father Taught Me Script Six: June Bug's House and Photographs and Memories
Part 12 Afterword: Identity and Human Communication
Part 13 References
Part 14 About the Author
Part 2 The Great Hartford Circus Fire
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 Performative Writing and the Primary Narrative
Chapter 5 Scripting Identity Using the Primary Narrative
Chapter 6 Adrienne Viramontes: I Had Been A White Reflection Script One: Deconstructing the Oreo
Chapter 7 Dave Fanno: The Pit! Script Two: The Coke Plant
Chapter 8 Jennifer Bianchi: I Was Terrified Script Three: A Letter to Sam
Chapter 9 Erin Okamoto Protsman: The Child, The Flower, and The Rifle Script Four: Excerpt from Without Due Process
Chapter 10 Ami Kleminski: Cross-dressing to Survive Script Five: I Am Not Contained between My Boots and My Hat
Chapter 11 William Boggs: What My Father Taught Me Script Six: June Bug's House and Photographs and Memories
Part 12 Afterword: Identity and Human Communication
Part 13 References
Part 14 About the Author