[PDF] Performing Autobiography eBook

Author : Katrina M. Powell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 10,3 MB
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030645983

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Performing Auto/biography: Narrating a Life as Activism analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed in five authors’ auto/biographical texts, examining their representations of identities and the public implications of writing individual identity. Exploring the ways race, class, culture, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality might affect the form(s) in which writers choose to write (e.g., memoir, fictional autobiography, poetry), questions how autobiographers challenge notions of genre, truth, and representation. This builds on the argument that constructing identity is a Performing Autobiography performance, one that can simultaneously use and subvert traditional notions of rhetoric and genre. By examining the auto/biographical texts of Zora Neale Hurston, Audre Lorde, Dorothy Allison, Joyce Johnson, and Shirley Geok-lin Lim together, the book theorizes self-representation and genres as rhetorical performances, and therefore their texts can be seen as “performative auto/biography”—transgressive archives where readers are asked to consider their own identities and act accordingly. In doing so, this book contributes to growing theories in feminist rhetorics and auto/biography studies, arguing that these performative genres advocate for life narratives as political and social activism.

Author : Jenn Stephenson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 144264446X

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Investigates the use of plays as a form of autobiography, looking at how the line between real-life and fiction can become blurred.

Author : Jennifer Stephenson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1442660651

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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 performed between 1999 and 2009, including Judith Thompson’s Perfect Pie, Daniel MacIvor’s In On It, and Timothy Findley’s Shadows. Her analysis encourages us to see autobiography as a uniquely political act, one that, where enacted on stage, illustrates the variety of ways that self-reflection and interpretation has an expanding role in contemporary culture.

Author : Sherrill Grace
Publisher : Talonbooks
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN :

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This groundbreaking exploration of a wide range of contemporary theorists and playwrights covers an extraordinary breadth of styles and performances.

Author : Suzanne Oakdale
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080323578X

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"As they narrate their lives in these rituals, leaders also give other participants ways to address some of the pressing issues in their own lives. Special emphasis is given to the emotional effects of narrative performances and how these accounts move people to identify with others, compel them to act in appropriate ways, or assuage their grief over a lost loved one. Oakdale analyzes autobiographical performances using insights from studies on ritual, life history, and linguistic anthropology to better understand Kayabi notions of self and person and the role these narrative expressions play in their social life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Deirdre Heddon
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230537537

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Offering a comprehensive overview of the use of autobiography in performance, this title uncovers the political potentials and limits that accompany the use of the personal in performance.

Author : Sidonie Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472068142

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Charts the ways that woman artists have represented themselves and their life stories

Author : Deirdre Heddon
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :

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What is the relationship between past and present in performance, given that the performing body is tangibly present in the here and now? What is the relationship between performance and authenticity? Between live, apparently 'confessional' performance and supposedly 'reality' television? Autobiography in Performance will provide a broad overview of the key concepts pertaining to 'autobiography' in the field of performance. Heddon's engaging style seamlessly blends the theoretical and the personal, raising and pursuing provactive questions around issues of 'truth', 'identity', personal history and political agency, confession, voyeurism and ethics. The book provides case studies of key international practitioners, including Tim Miller, Lisa Kron, Bobby Baker and Curious.

Author : Ryan Claycomb
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0472118404

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Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women’s drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was “The personal is the political.” These autobiographical and biographical “true stories” have the political impact of the real and have also helped a range of feminists tease out the more complicated aspects of gender, sex, and sexuality in a Western culture that now imagines itself as “postfeminist.” The book’s scope is broad, from performance artists like Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and Bobby Baker to playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sarah Kane. The book links the narrative tactics and theatrical approaches of biography and autobiography and shows how theater artists use life writing strategies to advance women’s rights and remake women’s representations. Lives in Play will appeal to scholars in performance studies, women’s studies, and literature, including those in the growing field of auto/biography studies. “ A fresh perspective and wide-ranging analysis of changes in feminist theater for the past thirty years . . . a most welcome addition to the literature on theater, in particular scholarship on feminist practices.” —Choice “Helps sustain an important history by reviving works of feminist theater and performance and giving them a new and refreshing context and theorical underpinning . . . considering 1970s performance art alongside more conventional play production.” —Lesley Ferris, The Ohio State University

Author : Maggie B B. Gale
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780719063329

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Arguing that women use autobiography and performance for expression and as a means of controlling their public and private selves, the contributors of these 11 essays examine the lives and work of a variety of artists ranging from actors as working women in the eighteenth century to monologists and performance artists today. Subjects include several performers, including Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion, Ina Rozant, Susan Glaspell, Adrienne Kennedy, Emma Robinson, Lena Ashwell, Tilly Wedekind, Clare Dowie, Janet Cardiff, Tracey Emin, and, in an interview, Bobby Baker, as well as essays on Latina theater and lesbians as performers constructing themselves and their community. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).