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Theatre and AutoBiography - Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
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That both autobiography and biography have acquired a position of
unprecedented importance over the past 30 years is now obvious.
Less obvious are the reasons for this phenomenon. Theorists and
students of AutoBiography, a research subject now viewed as
respectable in academic circles, have recently mapped the contours
and shifting parameters of the autobiographical and the
biographical processes, thereby contributing to the profile and
stature of both.This collection brings theatre practitioners
together with academics from three continents in a groundbreaking
exploration of the interdisciplinary realm of Theatre and
AutoBiography. On the theoretical side, the contributors draw on a
range of contemporary theorists: from Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze
and Emmanuel Levinas to Judith Butler, Mieke Bal and Homi Bhabha;
from Elin Diamond and Jill Dolan to Leigh Gilmore, Paul John Eakin
and Philippe Lejeune.In general terms, auto/biographical
performances have become hugely popular forms in Europe and North
America because we live in a culture of me or I at a time when
access to cultural production is easy. AutoBiographies satisfy our
desire for story at the same time as they promise to give us truths
(if not Truth). With the post-postmodern return of the author and
the waning of a deep-seated antihumanism associated with modernist
ideology and aesthetics, a desire for agency, voice, visibility and
subjectivity has resurfaced with a renewed passion.The playwrights
discussed here could scarcely be more broadly representative of
British and North American drama in the twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries: from W. B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett to
Michel Tremblay, Sharon Pollock and David Mamet; from Spalding Gray
and Karen Finley to Linda Griffiths; and from Orlan to Sally Clark,
R. H. Thomson, Monique Mojica and George Seremba, the range of
styles performances and subjectivities is extraordinary.
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Imprint: |
Talonbooks
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
February 2023 |
First published: |
February 2006 |
Editors: |
Sherrill Grace
• Jerry Wasserman
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Dimensions: |
254 x 177 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-88922-540-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-88922-540-0 |
Barcode: |
9780889225404 |
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