Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama

by 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144264446X
• ISBN13: 9781442644465
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher