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IN SEARCH OF A POLYPHONIC COUNTERNARRATIVE: COMMUNITY-BASED THEATRE, AUTOPATHOGRAPHY, AND NEOLIBERAL PINK RIBBON CULTURE

Senff, Sarah A
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1376083772

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2013, Master of Arts, Miami University, Theatre.
This thesis uses practice-based research to explore possible interventions into the traumatic impact of illness upon breast cancer survivors' voices and the role of neoliberal pink ribbon culture in compounding their silencing. The interdisciplinary research pulls from the fields of applied theatre, critical pedagogy, materialist feminism, narrative analysis, social movement theory, medical sociology, and dialogue, disability and performance studies. Reflecting upon process and praxis relating to a regional tour of Susan Miller's My Left Breast as a means to engage a community of survivors, advocates and the general public, this thesis asks: Can a community-based theatre event focused on exploring breast cancer counternarratives provide both a therapeutic space for survivors to tell their stories as well as encourage the audience to think more critically about how culture works to influence narratives emerging from breast cancer culture?
Ann Elizabeth Armstrong (Advisor)
Paul Jackson (Committee Member)
Ann Fuehrer (Committee Member)
151 p.
Fine Arts; Medical Ethics; Pedagogy; Performing Arts; Theater; Theater Studies; Womens Studies
pink ribbon; neoliberalism; community-based theatre; autopathography; storytelling; illness narrative; counternarrative; My Left Breast; Susan Miller; breast cancer; breast cancer culture; theatre in health education; medical humanities; applied theatre

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  • Senff, S. A. (2013). IN SEARCH OF A POLYPHONIC COUNTERNARRATIVE: COMMUNITY-BASED THEATRE, AUTOPATHOGRAPHY, AND NEOLIBERAL PINK RIBBON CULTURE [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1376083772

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Senff, Sarah. IN SEARCH OF A POLYPHONIC COUNTERNARRATIVE: COMMUNITY-BASED THEATRE, AUTOPATHOGRAPHY, AND NEOLIBERAL PINK RIBBON CULTURE. 2013. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1376083772.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Senff, Sarah. "IN SEARCH OF A POLYPHONIC COUNTERNARRATIVE: COMMUNITY-BASED THEATRE, AUTOPATHOGRAPHY, AND NEOLIBERAL PINK RIBBON CULTURE." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1376083772

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