{"product_id":"performing-autobiography","title":"Performing Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePerforming Autobiography\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003ePerforming Autobiography\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephenson explores the autobiographical form by analysing seven works by Canadian playwrights written and performed between 1999 and 2009, including Judith Thompson’s \u003cem\u003ePerfect Pie\u003c\/em\u003e, Daniel MacIvor’s \u003cem\u003eIn On It\u003c\/em\u003e, and Timothy Findley’s \u003cem\u003eShadows\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54231803461976,"sku":"9781442644465","price":45.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781442644465.jpg?v=1778544926","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/performing-autobiography","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}