Performing autobiography : contemporary Canadian drama / Jenn Stephenson.
"In Performing Autobiography, Jenn Stephenson presents an innovative new approach to autobiography studies that links the growing field of research to drama. Stephenson's analysis engages with performance histories to demonstrate the extent to which the dramatic form, which recasts autobio...
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Toronto, ON :
University of Toronto Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.