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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.

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'Performing Autobiography is a fascinating and important contribution to theatre and drama studies...Jenn Stephenson delivers incredibly in-depth analyses and discussions with a lucidity which is only rarely found.' -- Michael Heinze Journal of Contemporary Drama in English vol 2:2:2014

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

Performing Autobiography

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 19 April 2013
      ISBN-13 9781442644465
      978-1442644465
      ISBN-10 144264446X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      'Performing Autobiography is a fascinating and important contribution to theatre and drama studies...Jenn Stephenson delivers incredibly in-depth analyses and discussions with a lucidity which is only rarely found.' -- Michael Heinze Journal of Contemporary Drama in English vol 2:2:2014

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

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