Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Program
Reading
Date of Award
12-2013
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Joseph Sobol
Committee Members
Marie Tedesco, Delanna Reed
Abstract
During field experience as a storyteller constructing a performance based on the Battle of Kings Mountain on behalf of the Overmountain Victory Trail Association and the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, I encountered ethical and philosophical dilemmas. This challenge centered on ethical and spiritual convictions that put me in potential conflict with the task of creating a performance about war. This experience forms the basis of an autoethnographic approach to the art form, revealing the critical role played by personal ethics and a functioning engagement with historiography and narrative theory in producing effective performance stories. Historical performance storytelling has little developed theoretical discourse that takes into account contemporary theories of historiography and interpretation. My experience suggests that interdisciplinary thought on narrative, counternarrative, performance, and historiography should be incorporated by storytellers to aid in the production of ethical and effective historical storytelling performances.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
McMaken, A. Trae, "Fire on the Prisoners: An Autoethnographic Study of Ethics in Historical Storytelling" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2288. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2288
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.