- 224 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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Information
Performative
Witnessing
to
Autobiographies
of
Trauma
67
enter
into
the
story;
through
an
engaged
theatricality,
we
are
called
to
become
an
affective
witness,
to
feel,
to
become
implicated
as
Michael
is
in
the
ugliness
of
Althea’s
story.
Goodness
,
as
part
of
the
chain
of
witness-
ing,
passes
that
question
on
to
the
audience:
‘How
does
it
feel
to
be
out
there
in
the
dark?
Just
watching.
Invisible,
but
still
a
part
of
everything.
A
part
of
this
.
How
does
that
feel?’
(102).
Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Narrative Failure and the Loss of an Autobiographical Self: Perfect Pie and The Drawer Boy
- Chapter Two. Performative Witnessing to Autobiographies of Trauma: Goodness
- Chapter Three. Setting Free Silenced Autobiographical Voices: Eternal Hydra and Shadows
- Chapter Four. The Autobiographical Body as a Site of Utopian Performativity: Billy Twinkle
- Chapter Five. Self-Authoring Characters in Recursive Autothanatography: In On It
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index