Autobiography and performance

Author(s)

• Heddon, Deirdre

Bibliographic Information

Autobiography and performance

Deirdre Heddon

（Theatre and performance practices）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

• : [hardback]

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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Details

• NCID: BC03906079
• ISBN:
  • 9780230537538
• LCCN: 2007048539
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 218 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN1936
  • DC22 : 792.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Monodramas -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Autobiographical drama -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : One-person shows (Performing arts)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA74424404