List of Illustrations - General Editors' Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART I: POLITICS (OF SELF): THE SUBJECT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Beginnings: Autobiographical Performance - Tensions: Experience and Its Representation - In-Between: Experience and Its Representation - The Autobiography of Community - PART II: HISTORY: TESTIMONIAL TIMES - Psychoanalysis and Trauma - Performing Testimonial History - PART III: PLACE: THE PLACE OF SELF - Autotopography: Autobiography and Place - The Art of Walking - The Politics of Place - PART IV: ETHICS: THE STORY OF THE OTHER - Self-Other - Verbatim Theatre - Performance Rights - PART V: CONCLUSION: These Confessional Times - The Appropriate(d) Personal - The Difference of Context - References - Bibliography.