Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama
Jennifer Stephenson
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 ... Read more
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Michael Heinze
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English vol 2:2:2014