Autobiography and Performance offers a comprehensive overview of the use of autobiography in performance. Examining the work of key practitioners, Heddon argues that autobiographical performances act as sites of resistance and intervention and uncovers the political potentials and limits that accompany the use of the personal in performance.
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.
