Lives in Play: Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage

Contents

contents introduction : Lives in Play 1 part i : Autobiography: The Body and Self in Performance chapter 1 : Performative Lives, Performed Selves: Autobiography in Feminist Performance 27 chapter 2 : Autobiography and the Rhetoric of the Embodied Self 55 chapter 3 : The Autobiographical Play and the Death of the Playwright: Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis 91 part ii : Biography: Staging Women’s Lives chapter 4 : Staging Women’s Lives, Staging Feminist Performances 117 chapter 5 : A Life in the (Meta)Theater: Writing/Rehearsing/Acting Out 138 chapter 6 : Performing Race and the Object of Biography 173 conclusion : Performing Global Lives 201 Notes 215 Bibliography 239 Index 251 ...