Theatres of autofiction /
This Element is the first monograph to focus on the presence and popularity in contemporary theatre of autofiction, a mode characterized by its mixture of autobiographical and fictional materials and generally associated with the cutting edge of literary fiction. To do so, it brings frameworks from...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2024].
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in theatre, performance and the political.
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| Summary: | This Element is the first monograph to focus on the presence and popularity in contemporary theatre of autofiction, a mode characterized by its mixture of autobiographical and fictional materials and generally associated with the cutting edge of literary fiction. To do so, it brings frameworks from literary and theatre studies to bear on a recent upsurge in plays that explicitly mobilize lived experience and its fictionalization to political ends. Considering a comparative corpus of state-subsidized productions in Britain and Europe since the mid-2010s, both adaptations of literary works and plays written for the stage, this Element attends to autofiction's aesthetics and politics through its negotiation on stage of three conceptual binaries, each the focus of a chapter, fact/fiction, self/other and inclusion/exclusion. By probing the mode's critical potential and pitfalls, it sheds light on the stakes of self-fictionalizing practices in today's cultural markets and on the role of theatre therein. |
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| Physical Description: | 72 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [66]-72). |
| ISBN: | 1009406957 9781009406956 1009565362 9781009565363 |