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Title: | "Some people are born strange": A Brechtian theater pedagogy as philosophical ethnography |
Authors: | Frimberger, K |
Keywords: | Brechtian theater pedagogy;Philosophical ethnography;Drama-based research;Rhizomatic validity |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Citation: | Qualitative Inquiry, pp. 1-12, (2016) |
Abstract: | The article explores the role of a Brechtian theater pedagogy as “philosophical ethnography” in four investigative drama based workshops, which took international students’ intercultural “strangeness” experiences as the starting point for aesthetic experimentation. It is argued that a Brechtian theater pedagogy allows for a productive rather than representational orientation in research, which is underpinned by a love for the aesthetic “re-entanglement” of (dis-embodied) language and ethical concerns about mimetic representational acts. To show how a Brechtian research pedagogy functioned as philosophical ethnography, the article maps the aesthetic transformation of participant Jamal’s verbatim account in the drama workshops—from (a) its emergence in a post-creative-writing discussion in Workshop 2, to (b) its enactment as a body sculpture in Workshop 3, and (c) to its translation into a rehearsal piece in Workshop 4. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13478 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800416643995 |
ISSN: | 1077-8004 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Arts and Humanities Research Papers |
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