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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954573903321

Autore

Claycomb Ryan M. <1974->

Titolo

Lives in play : autobiography and biography on the feminist stage / / Ryan Claycomb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012

ISBN

9786613862877

9781283550420

1283550423

9780472028535

0472028537

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

812.009/9287

Soggetti

American drama - Women authors - History and criticism

Feminist drama - History and criticism

Autobiography in literature

Biography in literature

Feminism and literature - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Lives in Play -- I. Autobiography: The Body and Self in Performance -- 1. Performative Lives, Performed Selves: Autobiography in Feminist Performance -- 2. Autobiography and the Rhetoric of the Embodied Self -- 3. The Autobiographical Play and the Death of the Playwright: Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis -- II. Biography: Staging Women's Lives -- 4. Staging Women's Lives, Staging Feminist Performances -- 5. A Life in the (Meta)Theater: Writing/Rehearsing/Acting Out -- 6. Performing Race and the Object of Biography -- Conclusion: Performing Global Lives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Life writing's significance in women's theater and performance from the '70s to the present.