Autobiography and performance
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Autobiography and performance
(Theatre and performance practices)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-209) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Autobiography and Performance offers a comprehensive overview of the use of autobiography in performance. Examining the work of key practitioners, Heddon argues that autobiographical performances
act as sites of resistance and intervention and uncovers the political potentials and limits that accompany the use of the personal in performance
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations.- General Editors' Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART I: POLITICS (OF SELF): THE SUBJECT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY.- Beginnings: Autobiographical Performance.- Tensions: Experience and Its Representation.- In-Between: Experience and Its Representation.- The Autobiography of Community.- PART II: HISTORY: TESTIMONIAL TIMES.- Psychoanalysis and Trauma.- Performing Testimonial History.- PART III: PLACE: THE PLACE OF SELF.- Autotopography: Autobiography and Place.- The Art of Walking.- The Politics of Place.- PART IV: ETHICS: THE STORY OF THE OTHER.- Self-Other.- Verbatim Theatre.- Performance Rights.- PART V: CONCLUSION: These Confessional Times.- The Appropriate(d) Personal.- The Difference of Context.- References.- Bibliography.
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