I was never alone or oporniki : an ethnographic play on disability in Russia / Cassandra Hartblay

Author: Hartblay, Cassandra, 1984-
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 196 pages).

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: The Play's the Thing -- About This Book: A Note from the Ethnographer -- Script -- Production History -- Cast of Characters -- Setting -- Time -- Note -- Portrait I: VERA -- Portrait II: VAKAS -- Portrait III: ALINA -- Portrait IV: SERGEI -- Portrait V: RUDAK -- Portrait VI: ANYA -- Photos -- Russia -- Research Process -- Scripting and Staging -- Ethnographer's Essay -- Rituals of Vulnerability: Reflections on Method as Theory in Action -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- Doing Disability Anthropology in Russia, We Were Never Alone: Words for Disability -- Performance Ethnography and the Practice of Anthropology -- Disability Theater and Performance Ethnography -- PERFORMING INTERDEPENDENCY AND CRIP TIME ON STAGE -- SPOTLIGHT ON METHODS: Origins and Writing Process -- REPRESENTING RUSSIA ON THE NORTH AMERICAN STAGE -- SPOTLIGHT ON METHODS: Casting and Rehearsing Access -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1: Performance Ethnography Exercises -- EXERCISE ONE: OBSERVATIONAL WRITING -- EXERCISE TWO: PLAYING WITH INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION -- EXERCISE THREE: CAST OF CHARACTERS, EXERCISE FOUR: PRELIMINARY SCENIC COMPONENTS LIST -- EXERCISE FIVE: MEDIA FOR THEATER -- EXERCISE SIX: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SCENE -- EXERCISE SEVEN: WRITING A MONOLOGUE-PORTRAIT FOR PERFORMANCE -- EXERCISE EIGHT: FROM TEXT TO VOICE -- THE TABLE READING -- Appendix 2: Disability Terminology -- ENGLISH-LANGUAGE TERMINOLOGY -- Appendix 3: Russian and Soviet Historical References -- LIST OF POLITICAL LEADERS OF RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION -- Appendix 4: Suggestions for Reading This Book in the Classroom -- Appendix 5: Prop and Set List -- Appendix 6: Dramaturgical Note -- STAGING ETHNOGRAPHY -- CASTING, and THEATER ACCESS -- Appendix 7: An Ethic of Accommodation by Terry Galloway, Donna Marie Nudd, and Carrie Sandahl -- Appendix 8: Russian Words and Pronunciation -- NOTES ON PRONUNCIATION

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"I Was Never Alone or Oporniki presents an original ethnographic stage play, based on fieldwork conducted in Russia with adults with disabilities. The core of the work is the script of the play itself, which is accompanied by a description of the script development process, from the research in the field to rehearsals for public performances. In a supporting essay, the author argues that both ethnography and theatre can be understood as designs for being together in unusual ways, and that both practices can be deepened by recognizing the vibrant social impact of interdependency animated by vulnerability, as identified by disability theorists and activists."--
"This ethnographic play and supporting commentary contribute to the development of disability anthropology, and to a conversation about the use of performance methodologies in anthropology and ethnographic research."--

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9781487588427 EPUB
1487588429 EPUB
1487588437 electronic book
9781487588434 electronic book

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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