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Lives in play : autobiography and biography on the feminist stage / Ryan Claycomb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Claycomb, Ryan M., 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- Feminist drama--History and criticism.
- Feminist drama.
- Autobiography in literature.
- Biography in literature.
- Feminism and literature--United States.
- Feminism and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Life writing's significance in women's theater and performance from the '70s to the present.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786613862877
- 9781283550420
- 1283550423
- 9780472028535
- 0472028537
- OCLC:
- 808867123
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.4653571
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