
Autobiography and Performance
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act as sites of resistance and intervention and uncovers the political potentials and limits that accompany the use of the personal in performance
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'Heddon's book, covering, as it does, such an immense variety of practices, examined through a well focussed theoretical lens, is one which should be recommended to students and researchers alike - it will become a first point of reference for anyone working in the field.' Maggie B. Gale, University of Manchester, Studies in Theatre and Performance 29.3 'Heddon's book is a much-needed sustained discussion of the subject [auto-biography and performance]...[it has] a direct, honest, lively and engaging style of writing which invites and stimulates dialogue and debate.' Nicola Shaughnessy, University of Kent Theatre Research International 34.2 2009 'engaged, engaging and fully embodied.' Jennie Klein, Contemporary Theatre Review, 19. 'Heddon provides a nuanced exposition of contemporary critical concerns that are central to many university courses and her ability to match those concerns to the study and practice of autobiographical performance will make this book a challenging resource for students and teachers working in a number of areas in the higher education sector.' - Auto/Biography StudiesMore details
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Content
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.