THE PROBLEM:  MIMESIS UNLEASHEDAt this point the problem can be fairly stated (with some wonder, mind you) as to why these figures, so crucial [...]

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PLAYS: engaging, entertaining, funny and harrowingWhen performed, auto/biographical plays become what Elin Diamond has called "the site in which concealed or dissimulated conventions [...]

Some People(for Eoin)by Rita Ann HigginsSome people know what it’s like,To be called a cunt in front of their childrento be short for the [...]

EXCHANGING TRANSPARENCY FOR TRANSCENDENCY IN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY?"We argue that in an attempt to engage the crises of representation by transgressively blurring genres and writing against [...]

ETHNOGRAPHER-ARTISTS:  be careful what we wish for..."The longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us and makes us [...]

DISCIPLINES, INTERDISCIPLINES AND METHODOLOGY"The crucial issue for Friedman remains the question of methodology in interdisciplinary work, or, rather, the lack of methodology in women's [...]

THE INNOCUOUSNESS OF THE ORDINARYIn single person monologues the actor is often standing relatively still; there is little by way of sweeping physicality, in [...]

DESCARTES, RUMI, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND PAUL STOLLERSeeking to avoid the epistemological and political pitfalls of Cartesianism, a growing number of scholars have used the notion [...]

CAN YOU DO ETHNOGRAPHY WITHOUT PUTTING YOUR BODY ON THE LINE? If ethnography is about anything it is about putting your body on the line. [...]

AFFINITY WITHOUT IDENTITY? RESPECTING LIMITATIONSIt is becoming clearer that all autobiography is shaped by narrative convention.  Much of the literature addressing this issue comes [...]