By combining autoethnography, performance studies, and memoir, the authors create a writing genre called “performative memoir.” This book applies the current thinking in performance studies and autoethnography to demonstrate how performative memoir operates as a unique and specialized way of performative writing.

Acknowledgments
Preface: Performative Memoir: The Methodology of a Creative Process
Theresa Carilli and Adrienne Viramontes
1.Performative Memoir: From Nostalgia to Recovery
Theresa Carilli and Adrienne Viramontes
2.The Performative Memoir as Spiritual Practice
Adrienne Viramontes
3.Loving Crazy: A Performative Memoir
Theresa Carilli
4.Mexican Love: A Performative Memoir
Adrienne Viramontes
5.Making Sense, Making Peace: An Analysis of “Loving Crazy” as a Performative Memoir
Theresa Carilli
6.The Art of Living Through Performative Memoir: Four Phases
Adrienne Viramontes
7.Performative Memoir: Crossroads of Communication Scholarship
Theresa Carilli and Adrienne Viramontes
Selected References
About the Authors

Media, Culture, and the Arts explores the ways cultural expression takes shape through the media or arts. The series initiates a dialogue about media and artistic representations and how such representations identify the status of a particular culture or community. Manuscripts for this series will examine media, the performing arts, or the literary arts as cultural, political, and social artifacts. Proposed books might include the study of a particular community or culture through race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, gender, religion, or able-ness, and its media or artistic representations, or the study of how media genres (e.g., film, television, print, Internet) or the performing, or literary arts have depicted a community or culture. Supporting the principles of feminism and humanitarianism, the series contributes to a dialogue about media, culture, and the arts.

Series Editors: Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell