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02874aam a2200373Ia 4500 001 220051202FDF11E3BFAB6AC6DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20131008010120 008 121129s2013 onc b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2013409696 020 $a 9781442644465 (cloth) 020 $a 144264446X (cloth) 035 $a (OCoLC)842397528 040 $a CDX $b eng $c CDX $d UAU $d YDXCP $d LHU $d DLC $d OKU $d VGM $d SILO 043 $a n-cn--- 050 00 $a PN1936 $b .S74 2013 050 4 $a PR9191.6.A86 $b S74 2013 055 0 $a PN1936 $b .S74 2013 082 04 $a 792.1 $2 23 100 1 $a Stephenson, Jenn, $d 1971- 245 10 $a Performing autobiography : $b contemporary Canadian drama / $c Jenn Stephenson. 260 $a Toronto : $b University of Toronto Press, $c c2013. 300 $a viii, 212 p. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-207) and index. 505 0 $a Narrative failure and the loss of an autobiographical self : Perfect pie and The drawer boy -- Performative witnessing to autobiographies of trauma : Goodness -- Setting free silenced autobiographical voices : Eternal hydra and Shadows -- The autobiographical body as a site of utopian performativity : Billy Twinkle -- Self-authoring characters in recursive autothanatography : In on it. 520 $a "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."--Publisher's description. 650 0 $a Monodramas $z Canada $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a One-person shows (Performing arts) $z Canada. 650 0 $a Autobiographical drama, Canadian $x History and criticism. 650 5 $a Autobiographical drama, Canadian (English) $x History and criticism. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171229015842.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826074524.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=220051202FDF11E3BFAB6AC6DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search