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Experiments with Book Festival People (Real and Imaginary)

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Driscoll B & Squires C (2020) Experiments with Book Festival People (Real and Imaginary). M¨¦moires du livre, 11 (2). https://doi.org/10.7202/1070271ar

Abstract
While there are multiple approaches to researching cultural events, predominant academic frames tend to be either sociological or situated within a creative industries discourse. Neither of these approaches have supported sustained engagement with individual, interior experience at book festivals. Creative writers have imaginatively depicted these sites of author-reader interaction, and developing scholarship focuses on autoethnography and the phenomenological. In this article, we extend and materialise these approaches through a series of creative, arts-informed interventions: @AuthorsYurt, a personification on Twitter of the Edinburgh International Book Festival¡¯s green room; Paper Dolls, a series of cut-out-and-dress dolls depicting audience members at a variety of book festivals across Europe, North America and Australia; and ClueButeDo, a satirical reworking of the audience feedback form at a small island crime festival in the UK. Each of the three experiments reveals aspects of personhood at book festivals, engaging with ideas of interiority, individuality, and experientiality, as well as of inclusion and exclusion. In pursuing this aim, we are guided by the autoethnographic slogan, ¡°No Insight Without Inside, No Inside Without Outside¡± (Nunu Otot). Bien qu¡¯il existe de multiples approches en mati¨¨re de recherche sur les activit¨¦s culturelles, les cadres universitaires pr¨¦dominants ont tendance ¨¤ ¨ºtre sociologiques, ou encore inspir¨¦s de la mani¨¨re dont on aborde les industries cr¨¦atives. Ceux-ci ne permettent pas de prendre v¨¦ritablement en compte l¡¯exp¨¦rience individuelle et int¨¦rieure v¨¦cue lors de festivals du livre. Des ¨¦crivains ont d¨¦peint ces lieux d¡¯interaction entre l¡¯auteur et le lecteur; de son c?t¨¦, la recherche actuelle tend ¨¤ s¡¯axer sur l¡¯autoethnographie et la ph¨¦nom¨¦nologie. Dans l¡¯article, nous prolongeons et rendons plus tangibles ces approches en nous appuyant sur diverses interventions cr¨¦atives, inspir¨¦es des arts : @AuthorsYurt, une personnification, sur Twitter, de la salle verte du Festival international du livre d¡¯?dimbourg; Paper Dolls, des poup¨¦es de papier ¨¤ habiller repr¨¦sentant des membres du public pr¨¦sent ¨¤ divers festivals du livre en Europe, en Am¨¦rique du Nord et en Australie; et ClueButeDo, une reformulation satirique des commentaires de participants ¨¤ un festival du roman noir tenu sur la petite ?le de Bute au Royaume-Uni. Chacun de ces exemples r¨¦v¨¨le des aspects de la personne telle qu¡¯elle se situe dans un festival du livre, ¨¤ partir des notions d¡¯int¨¦riorit¨¦, d¡¯individualit¨¦ et d¡¯exp¨¦rientialit¨¦, ainsi que d¡¯inclusion et d¡¯exclusion. Nous sommes ici guid¨¦es par le slogan autoethnographique ? No Insight Without Inside, No Inside Without Outside ? (? Pas d¡¯int¨¦riorit¨¦ sans int¨¦rieur, pas d¡¯int¨¦rieur sans ext¨¦rieur ?) (Nunu Otot).

Keywords
Book festivals; autoethnography; creative methods; experientiality; Ullapoolism; Festivals du livre; autoethnographie; m¨¦thodes cr¨¦atives; exp¨¦rientialit¨¦; Ullapoolisme

Journal
M¨¦moires du livre: Volume 11, Issue 2

StatusPublished
Publication date31/12/2020
Publication date online06/08/2020
Date accepted by journal31/01/2020
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PublisherConsortium Erudit
ISSN1920-602X

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Professor Claire Squires

Professor Claire Squires

Professor in Publishing Studies, English Studies

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