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Auto/Biography and Identity (Paperback)
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Auto/Biography and Identity (Paperback)
Series: Women, Theatre and Performance
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This groundbreaking book shows how female performers - one of the
first groups of professional women - used and still use
autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and
control of their private and public selves, the 'face and the
mask'. In eleven essays it looks at how a range of women in the
theatre - actors, managers, writers and live artists - have done
this on the page and on the stage from the late eighteenth-century
to the present day, from Emma Robinson to Tilly Wedekind, and from
Lena Ashwell to Tracy Emin, testing the boundaries between gender,
theatre and autobiographical form. The book is divided into three
sections. Part I: Telling tales: autobiographic strategies; Part
II: The professional/confessional self; and Part III:
Auto/biography, identity and performance. The editors have selected
and re-selected from 'a wealth of material those things which they
believe to have both some value in themselves, and also as links
which bind together past and present'. This book facilitates
connections - connections between texts and performances, past and
present practitioners, professional and private selves, individuals
and communities, all of which have in some way renegotiated
identity through autobiography and the creative act. Auto/biography
and identity is a landmark in theatre history and performance
analysis, in gender and cultural theory, and autobiographical
studies. It will be of interest to the scholar, the student and the
reader with a more general interest in the cultural history of
theatre.
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