Autobiography and Performance: Performing Selves

ISBN-13: 9780230537521 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 232 str.

Deirdre Heddon

Opis

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

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

DEIRDRE HEDDON is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is the author, with Jane Milling, of Devising Performance: A Critical History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and her work on the use of autobiographical material in performance has been published in various journals and edited collections.