Autobiography and Performance: Performing Selves by Deirdre Heddon
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.