Performing autobiography : contemporary Canadian drama /

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.

Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Stephenson, Jenn, 1971-
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2013
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 1 Narrative Failure and the Loss of an Autobiographical Self: Perfect Pie and The Drawer Boy
  • 2 Performative Witnessing to Autobiographies of Trauma: Goodness
  • 3 Setting Free Silenced Autobiographical Voices: Eternal Hydra and Shadows
  • 4 The Autobiographical Body as a Site of Utopian Performativity: Billy Twinkle
  • 5 Self-Authoring Characters in Recursive Autothanatography: In On It
  • Coda.