Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre

302 Pages·2005·6.28 MB·English

by  Johnny Saldaña (ed.)

CROSSROADS IN QUALITATIVE
INQUIRY
Series Editors
Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Yvonna S. Lincoln, Texas A&M University
ABOUT THE SERIES
Qualitative methods are material and interpretive practices. They do not stand
outside politics and cultural criticism. This spirit of critically imagining and
pursuing a more democratic society has been a guiding feature of qualitative
inquiry from the very beginning. The Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry series
will take up such methodological and moral issues as the local and the global,
text and context, voice, writing for the other, and the presence of the author in
the text. The Crossroads series understands that the discourses of a critical,
moral methodology are basic to any effort to re-engage the promise of the social
sciences for democracy in the 21st Century. This international series creates a
space for the exploration of new representational forms and new critical, cultural
studies.
SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS
Book proposals should be sent to Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry Series, c/o
Norman K. Denzin, Institute for Communication Studies, 810 S. Wright Street,
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 61820, or emailed to n-
[email protected].
BOOKS IN THIS SERIES
Volume 1: Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and
Terror, by Stephen John Hartnett (2003)
Volume 2: 9/11 in American Culture, edited by Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna
S. Lincoln (2003)
Volume 3: Turning Points in Qualitative Research: Tying Knots in the
Handkerchief, edited by Yvonna S. Lincoln and Norman K. Denzin (2003)
Volume 4: Uprising of Hope: Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Alternative
Development, Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli (2005)
Volume 5: Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre, edited by Johnny
Saldaña (2005)

Fronticepiece: Chris Marley as the poet Mack in Saldana, Finley, and Finley’s
Street Rat.

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Ethnodrama : an anthology of reality theatre / edited by Johnny Saldaña. p. cm.
—(Crossroads in qualitative inquiry ; v. 5) Includes bibliographical references.
9780759114982
1. Social problems—Drama. 2. American drama—21st century. 3. Ethnology—
Research—Drama. 4. Social sciences—Research—Drama. I. Saldaña, Johnny.
II. Series.

PSG27.SG3E86 2004
812’.60803556—dc22

2004018673

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Table of Contents
CROSSROADS IN QUALITATIVE INQUIRY
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
Series Editors’ Foreword
Prologue: the theatre
the theatre
An Introduction to Ethnodrama
PART I - Ethnodramatic Monologue
Scenes from Voices in the Rain
Scenes from 14
Chalkboard Concerto: Growing Up as a Teacher in the Chicago Public
Schools
PART II - Ethnodramatic Dialogue with Monologue
Storm Tracking: Scenes of Marital Disintegration
The Practice
Wearing the Secret Out - BY JENNIFER CHAPMAN, ANNE
SWEDBERG, AND HEATHER SYKES
PART III - Ethnodramatic Extensions
Baddies, Grubs & the Nitty-Gritty
Street Rat
Hidden
Appendix - DRAMATIC MODELS FOR ETHNODRAMA
Bibliography
About the Contributors