Title

Performing absence: The staged personal narrative as testimony

Abstract

This study centers on autobiographical staged personal narrative, applying insights from studies in conversational personal narrative, the staging of collected stories, and. therapeutic testimony. The author pays specific attention to Holocaust narrative, Linda Alcoffs “The Problem of Speaking for Others, “ and contemporary essays about performed autobiographical narrative.

Department(s)

Theatre and Dance

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/10462930009366281

Keywords

Alcoff, Autobiographical performance, Personal narrative, Testimony

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Journal Title

Text and Performance Quarterly

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