1. Disaster Narrative Emergent/cies: Performing Loss, Identity and Resistance.
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Carlin, PhyllisScott and Park-Fuller, LindaM.
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NARRATIVE inquiry (Research method) ,PERFORMANCE theory ,DISASTERS ,PLAYBACK theater ,SOCIAL semiotics ,IDENTITY (Philosophical concept) ,SOCIAL action - Abstract
The essay investigates narratives of disaster experiences as performed in over five hundred oral histories, diaries, interviews, letters, and other sources drawn from US-related disasters over one hundred years’ time. Based on analysis of the stories, the study establishes disaster narratives as a specific type of cultural performance with characteristic aesthetic strategies and performative intents; articulates their reflexive and emergent qualities to be restoring/creating identity and social critique; and shows how ethnodramas of disaster narratives, particularly Playback Theatre, radically re-contextualize disaster narratives by opening them to new viewpoints and speakers, fostering dialogue, debate, and social action. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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