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Performing Autobiography 7 Preface 9 Introduction 20 Santa Perdida, July Santa Perdida, August 33 Performing Traumatic Dialogue: On the Border of Fiction and Autobiography 59 Apartment 69 Body Dander, Dust 73 Embodying Autogiography: A Lesbian Performance of Gay Male Performance Art 84 Back with Arms Above; Three-quarter Back, Hands Clasped; Hands Holding Feet John Coplans 89 Yvonne Rainer on Autobiography 104 Benediciones 105 Requiem for the Self: Kathy Acker’s Final Work 117 Calculus, Clairvoyance, and Communitas 134 Retrato de Boda 135 Creating the World Waiting to be Created: Jack Smith and Karen Finley 155 Notes on Autobiography and Performance Excerpts from Wants 173 Fish Stories 181 Autobiography in the Present Tense: Deborah Hay, Living and Dying at Once 211 When Autobiography Becomes Soul: Erykah Badu and the Cultural Politics of Black Feminism 244 Generative 245 Mirror and Breath: Grandmother and I 255 Be To Want I: a performance piece for print 277 The Wild West Wind 291 Reviews 314 List of Contributors |