Jennifer Stephenson

Performing Autobiography

Contemporary Canadian Drama

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Produktbeschreibung

Stephenson explores the autobiographical form by analysing seven works by Canadian playwrights written and performed between 1999 and 2009, including Judith Thompson’s Perfect Pie, Daniel MacIvor’s In On It, and Timothy Findley’s Shadows.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781442644465
• ISBN-10: 144264446X
• Artikelnr.: 36182284

Autorenporträt

Jenn Stephenson is Professor in the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen's University. Her book Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama is also published by University of Toronto Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Narrative Failure and the Loss of an Autobiographical Self: Perfect
Pie and The Drawer Boy
3. Performative Witnessing to Autobiographies of Trauma: Goodness
4. Setting Free Silenced Autobiographical Voices: Eternal Hydra and
Shadows
5. The Autobiographical Body as a Site of Utopian Performativity: Billy
Twinkle
6. Self-Authoring Characters in Recursive Autothanatography: In On It
Notes
Bibliography
Index