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by Jennifer Stephenson

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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 autobiography as ambiguously fictive, ensures that the experience of the plays remains open to revision, alteration, and interpretation. As such, Performing Autobiography understands this form not to be the impossible documentation of the backward-looking narrative of one's life, but rather an evolving process of self-creation and transformation.

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. Her analysis encourages us to see autobiography as a uniquely political act, one that, where enacted on stage, illustrates the variety of ways that self-reflection and interpretation has an expanding role in contemporary culture.

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  • Title Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama
  • Author Jennifer Stephenson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Toronto Press, Toronto
  • Publication date 2013-04
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781442644465 / 144264446X
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Monodramas - Canada - History and criticism, One-person shows (Performing arts) - Canada
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.1
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