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Informationen zum Autor Jenn Stephenson is Professor in the Dan School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University. Her book Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama is also published by University of Toronto Press. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Narrative Failure and the Loss of an Autobiographical Self: Perfect Pie and The Drawer Boy Performative Witnessing to Autobiographies of Trauma: Goodness Setting Free Silenced Autobiographical Voices: Eternal Hydra and Shadows The Autobiographical Body as a Site of Utopian Performativity: Billy Twinkle Self-Authoring Characters in Recursive Autothanatography: In On It Notes Bibliography Index
