Journal•ISSN: 1046-2937
Text and Performance Quarterly
Taylor & Francis
About: Text and Performance Quarterly is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Performative utterance & Narrative. It has an ISSN identifier of 1046-2937. Over the lifetime, 977 publications have been published receiving 10292 citations. The journal is also known as: TPQ.
Topics: Performative utterance, Narrative, Queer, Performance studies, Politics
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the ethical dimensions of the ethnography of performance and perform as a moral act in the context of performing as an act of self-criticism.
Abstract: (1985). Performing as a moral act: Ethical dimensions of the ethnography of performance. Literature in Performance: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 1-13.
470 citations
TL;DR: The authors proposes "quare" studies as a vernacular rearticulation and deployment of Queer Theory to accommodate racialized sexual knowledge, which can be seen as a way of re-articulating and deploying Queer theory to accommodate race and class.
Abstract: Although queer studies has the potential to transform the way scholars theorize sexuality in conjunction with other identity formations, the paucity of attention given to race and class in queer studies represents a significant theoretical gap. Most current formulations of queer theory either ignore the categories of race and class altogether or theorize their effects in discursive rather than material terms. To suture that gap, this essay proposes "quare" studies as a vernacular rearticulation and deployment of queer theory to accommodate racialized sexual knowledge.
398 citations
TL;DR: This paper presented five perspectives on the personal narrative as communication and performance by analyzing definitions of text, context, and concepts in current research: personal narratives as story-text, personal narration as storytelling performance, conversational interaction, social process, and personal storytelling as political praxis.
Abstract: Personal narratives are studied in many disciplines, but theoretical analysis of the personal narrative has lagged behind research. This essay presents five perspectives on the personal narrative as communication and performance by analyzing definitions of text, context, and concepts in current research: personal narrative as story‐text, personal narrative as storytelling performance, personal narrative as conversational interaction, personal narrative as social process, and personal narrative as political praxis. The analysis clarifies the nature and function of personal narrative and generates insight into the issues, innovations, and politics of studying personal narratives.
366 citations
TL;DR: The authors accesses and assesses current knowledge and issues about personal narrative by weaving three discourses: academic discourse, personal narrative, and personal experience and identity in contemporary culture and performance studies.
Abstract: The proliferation of personal narrative in contemporary culture and performance studies sparks both celebration and suspicion. This essay accesses and assesses current knowledge and issues about personal narrative by weaving three discourses: Dorothy Allison's performance piece Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, academic discourse, and personal narrative. From the conjoined perspectives of performance and performativity, personal narrative embodies cultural conflict about experience and identity. Performativity realizes the contextual and critical potential of the performance paradigm.
257 citations
TL;DR: On the edge of the BUSH: ANTHROPOLOGY as EXPERIENCE as discussed by the authors, by Victor W. Turner and Edith L. B. Bruner, is a classic work on experience.
Abstract: ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH: ANTHROPOLOGY AS EXPERIENCE. By Victor Turner. Edited by Edith L. B. Turner. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985; pp. vii + 328; $29.95. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE. By Victor Turner. New York: PAJ Publications, 1986; pp. 185; $19.95. THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EXPERIENCE. Edited by Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986; pp. 391; $15.95 (paper). THE PREDICAMENT OF CULTURE: TWENTIETH‐CENTURY ETHNOGRAPHY, LITERATURE, AND ART. By James Clifford. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988; pp. vii + 381; $15.95 (paper).
147 citations