Department of English Publications
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
10-1-2006
Volume
84
Issue
1
Journal
Feminist Review
First Page
157
Last Page
159
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400311
Abstract
Even as interest in feminist theory and criticism in theatre and performance studies continues to wane (or, perhaps, finds itself remapped and redirected), interest in women, autobiography and performance is on the upswing. Auto/biography and Identity enters the field two years after the publication of Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson's collection Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance, but, in some contrast to this earlier text and its emphasis on the visual, Auto/biography locates itself specifically at the nexus between women's autobiographical writing and performance. As Gale and Gardner note in their introduction, by exploring theatrical women's writing about themselves alongside their often multiply-coded, fractious performances of their subjectivities and experiences, they hope to enable ‘connections between texts and performances, past and present practitioners, professional and private selves, individuals and communities, all of which have in some way renegotiated identity through autobiography’ (p. 5).
Publication Status
1
Notes
The published review is openly accessible at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400311