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Skin flint (or, the garbage man's kid)

A generative autobiographical performance based on Tami Spry's tattoo stories

Bibliographic Data

ID12370014
AuthorsB K Alexander (0000-0001-7382-6696, California State University Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume20
Issue1
Pages97-114
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueText and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10462930009366286
OpenAlexW2171778924
LanguageEN
Citations received37
References cited18

This essay capitalizes on the hope that autobiographical performance's aesthetic of incarnation may become an aesthetic ofreincamation. Explicating the construction of “generative autobiographical performance,” the essay continues the retheorizing of the personal narrator in autobiographical performance as something other than a heroic autonomous subject. It documents the essentially interdependent and collaborative effort evidenced between two autobiographical performances. In the process, the essay also continues to explore autobiographical performance as a form of cultural critique

Aesthetics · Art · Autobiographical memory · Cognitive psychology · Generative grammar · Incarnation · Interdependence · Linguistics · Recall · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Philosophy · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theatre and Performance Studies

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  • “I Thought I Knew You, Two”

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  • The Power of Metaphor

    Open Access•Claudio Moreira•International Review of…•2010

  • (Performance Is) Metaphors as Methodological Tools in Qualitative Inquiry

    Open Access•W Benjamin Myers, B K Alexander•International Review of…•2010

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    Open Access•Durell M Callier, Dominique C Hill et al.•International Review of…•2017

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    Open Access•Elyse Pineau, Elyse Lamm Pineau•International Review of…•2012

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    Lore/tta Lemaster•Departures in Critical…•2018

  • My History of History

    D Chawla•Departures in Critical…•2017

  • Diversity Thugs

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    Chris Mcrae•Text and Performance Quarterly•2024

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  • The Critical-Norm

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    Phyllis Scott Carlin, Linda M Park‐Fuller et al.•Text and Performance Quarterly•2011

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    Open Access•Devika Chawla•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2011

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    Open Access•Hari Stephen Kumar, Claudio Moreira•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2012

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    Open Access•Marquese L Mcferguson•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2022

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    Open Access•Lore/tta Lemaster, Benny Lemaster•Qualitative Inquiry•2014

  • Resisting (Resistance) Stories

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  • On Being Amorphous

    Open Access•Sarah N Gatson•Qualitative Inquiry•2003

  • Storm Tracking

    Open Access•Elissa Foster•Qualitative Inquiry•2002

  • Performing Autoethnography

    Open Access•Tami Spry•Qualitative Inquiry•2001

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    M M Bakhtin, Vern W Mcgee et al.•Speech Genres and Other Late Essays•2010

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    Elyse Lamm Pineau•Text and Performance Quarterly•1992

  • Refreshment

    Craig Gingrich‐philbrook•Text and Performance Quarterly•1997

  • Tattoo stories

    Tami Spry•Text and Performance Quarterly•2000

  • Appreciation and desire

    Robert Asen•Text and Performance Quarterly•1998

  • Performing marginality

    Joanne Gilbert, Joanne R Gilbert•Text and Performance Quarterly•1997

  • Skins

    Tami Spry•Text and Performance Quarterly•1997

  • Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction

    Meredith L Mcgill, Patrick O'Donnell et al.•Modern Language Notes•1989

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    Susan Kalcik, Susan J Kalcik•Journal of American Folklore•1975

  • Art as Experience (1934)

    John Dewey•Art and Its Significance•2026

  • Personal narrative, performance, performativity

    Kristin M Langellier•Text and Performance Quarterly•1999

  • Performance, Culture, and Identity

    Danielle M Roemer, Elizabeth C Fine et al.•Journal of American Folklore•1994

  • Personal Narratives Reconsidered

    John Robinson, John A Robinson•Journal of American Folklore•1981

  • The Anthropology of Performance

    Victor Turner, Victor Witter Turner•The anthropology of performance•1986

  • Feminist Theory

    Nassira Hedjerassi, Bell Hooks et al.•Feminist Theory•2014

Unique citing works37
Citations per year1,48
Citation span2001 - 2026 (26)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 37

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