Theresa Carilli, Ph.D., is a Professor of Communication and Creative Arts at Purdue University Calumet. She has written two books of plays, Women as Lovers and Familial Circles, and co-edited two anthologies: Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media and Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives. Carilli has guest-edited Voices in Italian Americana and the Global Media Journal. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois.

• Part 1 AcknowledgementsPart 2 The Great Hartford Circus FireChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 Performative Writing and the Primary NarrativeChapter 5 Scripting Identity Using the Primary NarrativeChapter 6 Adrienne Viramontes: I Had Been A White Reflection Script One: Deconstructing the OreoChapter 7 Dave Fanno: The Pit! Script Two: The Coke PlantChapter 8 Jennifer Bianchi: I Was Terrified Script Three: A Letter to SamChapter 9 Erin Okamoto Protsman: The Child, The Flower, and The Rifle Script Four: Excerpt from Without Due ProcessChapter 10 Ami Kleminski: Cross-dressing to Survive Script Five: I Am Not Contained between My Boots and My HatChapter 11 William Boggs: What My Father Taught Me Script Six: June Bug's House and Photographs and MemoriesPart 12 Afterword: Identity and Human CommunicationPart 13 ReferencesPart 14 About the Author

Theresa Carilli, Ph.D., is a Professor of Communication and Creative Arts at Purdue University Calumet. She has written two books of plays, Women as Lovers and Familial Circles, and co-edited two anthologies: Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media and Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives. Carilli has guest-edited Voices in Italian Americana and the Global Media Journal. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois.

• Part 1 AcknowledgementsPart 2 The Great Hartford Circus FireChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 Performative Writing and the Primary NarrativeChapter 5 Scripting Identity Using the Primary NarrativeChapter 6 Adrienne Viramontes: I Had Been A White Reflection Script One: Deconstructing the OreoChapter 7 Dave Fanno: The Pit! Script Two: The Coke PlantChapter 8 Jennifer Bianchi: I Was Terrified Script Three: A Letter to SamChapter 9 Erin Okamoto Protsman: The Child, The Flower, and The Rifle Script Four: Excerpt from Without Due ProcessChapter 10 Ami Kleminski: Cross-dressing to Survive Script Five: I Am Not Contained between My Boots and My HatChapter 11 William Boggs: What My Father Taught Me Script Six: June Bug's House and Photographs and MemoriesPart 12 Afterword: Identity and Human CommunicationPart 13 ReferencesPart 14 About the Author

Theresa Carilli, Ph.D., is a Professor of Communication and Creative Arts at Purdue University Calumet. She has written two books of plays, Women as Lovers and Familial Circles, and co-edited two anthologies: Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media and Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives. Carilli has guest-edited Voices in Italian Americana and the Global Media Journal. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois.

• Part 1 AcknowledgementsPart 2 The Great Hartford Circus FireChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 Performative Writing and the Primary NarrativeChapter 5 Scripting Identity Using the Primary NarrativeChapter 6 Adrienne Viramontes: I Had Been A White Reflection Script One: Deconstructing the OreoChapter 7 Dave Fanno: The Pit! Script Two: The Coke PlantChapter 8 Jennifer Bianchi: I Was Terrified Script Three: A Letter to SamChapter 9 Erin Okamoto Protsman: The Child, The Flower, and The Rifle Script Four: Excerpt from Without Due ProcessChapter 10 Ami Kleminski: Cross-dressing to Survive Script Five: I Am Not Contained between My Boots and My HatChapter 11 William Boggs: What My Father Taught Me Script Six: June Bug's House and Photographs and MemoriesPart 12 Afterword: Identity and Human CommunicationPart 13 ReferencesPart 14 About the Author