1 Narrative Failure and the Loss of an Autobiographical Self: Perfect Pie and The Drawer Boy -- 2 Performative Witnessing to Autobiographies of Trauma: Goodness -- 3 Setting Free Silenced Autobiographical Voices: Eternal Hydra and Shadows -- 4 The Autobiographical Body as a Site of Utopian Performativity: Billy Twinkle -- 5 Self-Authoring Characters in Recursive Autothanatography: In On It -- Coda
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207) and index
