In this performance script, I interrogate the ethical and political implications of the interdisciplinary turn to performance and theatre in critical ethnography. I focus on ethnodramas, and the performance theories of Boal, Conquergood, Freire, Goffman, Madison, Saldana, Schechner, and Turner. A play-within-a-play is offered as an instance of this kind of writing.
AnzalduaG. (1987). Borderlands/la Frontera: The new Mestiza. San Francisco, CA: Aunt lute books.
2.
BoalA. (1985). The theatre of the oppressed. New York, NY: Theatre Communications Group. (Original work published 1974)
3.
ConquergoodD. (1985). Performing as a moral act: Ethical dimensions of the ethnography of performance. Literature in Performance, 5(1), 1-13 (reprinted as pp. 65-80 In JohnsonP. [Ed.], Cultural struggles: Performance, ethnography, praxis: D. Conquergood. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).
4.
DenzinN. K. (2018). Performance (auto) ethnography: Critical pedagogy and the politics of culture. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
5.
DurhamA. S. (2014). HOME with hip hop feminism. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
6.
FinleyS. (2017). Critical arts-based inquiry: Performance of resistance politics. In DenzinN. K.LincolnY. S. (Eds.), Sage handbook of qualitative research (5th edn, pp. 561-575). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
7.
JohnsonE. P. (2013). Introduction: Opening and interpreting lives. In JohnsonE. P. (Ed.), Cultural struggles: Performance, ethnography, praxis: Dwight Conquergood (pp. 1-14). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
8.
MadisonD. S. (2010). Acts of activism: Human rights as radical performance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
9.
MienczakowskiJ. (2001). Ethnodrama: Performed research—Limitations and potential. In AtkinsonP.DelamontS.CoffeyA. (Eds.), Handbook of ethnography (pp. 468-476). London, England: Sage.
10.
MienczakowskiJ.MooreT. (2008). Performing data with notions of responsibility. In KnowlesJ. G.ColeA. L. (Eds.), Handbook of the arts in qualitative research (pp. 451-458). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
11.
MienczakowskiJ.MorganS. (2001). Ethnodrama: Constructing participatory, experiential and compelling action research through performance. In ReasonP.BradburyH. (Eds.), Handbook of action research: Participatory inquiry and practice (pp. 219-227). London, England: Sage.
12.
NorrisJ. (2009). Playbuilding as qualitative research. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.
13.
SaldanaJ. (2005). An introduction to ethnodrama. In SaldanaJ. (Ed.), Ethnodrama: An anthology of reality theatre (pp. 1-36). Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
14.
SaldanaJ. (2011). Ethnotheatre: Research from page to stage. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
15.
SchechnerR. (1985). Between theatre and anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press.
16.
SchechnerR. (1988). Performance theory. New York, NY: Routledge.
17.
SchechnerR. (2013). Performance studies: An introduction. New York, NY: Routledge.
18.
SmithA. D. (1993). Fires in the mirror. New York, NY: Anchor Books.
19.
SmithA. D. (1994). Twilight: Los Angeles. New York, NY: Anchor Books.
20.
SmithA. D. (2004). Piano. New York: Anchor.
21.
TurnerV. (1982). From ritual to theatre. New York, NY: Performing Arts Journal Publications.
22.
TurnerV. (1986). The anthropology of performance. New York, NY: Performing Arts Journal Publications.
23.
WeemsM. E. (2002). I speak from the wound that is my mouth. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
24.
WeemsM. E. (2013). One love: Empathy and the imagination-intellect. In WeemsM. E. (Ed.), Writings of healing and resistance: Empathy and the imagination-intellect (pp. 1-22). New York, NY: Peter Lang.
