{"product_id":"performing-autobiography-9781442644465","title":"Performing Autobiography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephenson 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   * 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408366772567,"sku":"9781442644465","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442644465.jpg?v=1730502649","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/performing-autobiography-9781442644465","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}