Deirdre Heddon

Autobiography and Performance

Performing Selves

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave MacMillan
• 2007 edition
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 148mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780230537521
• ISBN-10: 0230537529
• Artikelnr.: 22929987

Autorenporträt

DEIRDRE HEDDON is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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.