Real? American? Hero? An Autoethnography about Playing Creatively and Cathartically with G.I. Joe

Autor/in	Hopkins, Justin B.
Titel	Real? American? Hero? An Autoethnography about Playing Creatively and Cathartically with G.I. Joe
Quelle	In: American Journal of Play, 14 (2022) 3, S.277-303 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-0399
Schlagwörter	Toys; Play; Cultural Differences; Creativity; Violence; Ethnography; Autobiographies; Identification (Psychology); Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Toy; Spielzeug; Spiel; Kultureller Unterschied; Kreativität; Gewalt; Ethnografie; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	In what the author calls an autoethnography, he examines two aspects of his love of a favorite childhood toy: G.I. Joe. First, because the author is a contingent pacificist and this military figure--a fundamentally violent toy--played so important a role in his life, he now seeks to reconcile his aversion to (real life) violence with his enjoyment of G.I. Joe. Second, he explores how his experience as a Third Culture Kid (TCK)--born in the United States, but growing up in Africa--was affected by his enjoyment of G.I. Joe. He combines research, reflection, analysis, and narrative in an account of how his experiences with G.I. Joe may have been manifested in his creativity and how they provided a therapeutic catharsis following his exposure to actual violent conflict. Hopkins also argues for the future use of autoethnography in play studies. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01