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Jennifer Stephenson - Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama - 9781442644465 - V9781442644465
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Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama

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Description for Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 20. .

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442644465
SKU
V9781442644465
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About Jennifer Stephenson
Jenn Stephenson is Professor in the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University. Her book Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama is also published by University of Toronto Press.

Reviews for Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama
‘Performing Autobiography is a  fascinating and important contribution to theatre and drama studies…Jenn Stephenson delivers incredibly in-depth analyses and discussions with a lucidity which is only rarely found.’
Michael Heinze
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English vol 2:2:2014

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