Performative Identities in Culture : From Literature to Social Media /

Performative Identities in Culture : From Literature to Social Media /

This book's primary task is to test the contemporary value of performance and performativity. Performative Identities in Culture: From Literature to Social Media undertakes this task via a host of chapters on a vast spectrum of performativity-related topics such as: literature (British, America...

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Other Authors: Jaworska-Biskup, Katarzyna (Editor), Zawadka, Beata (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 108.

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Performance.

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Call Number: NX212

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Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Performativity in the 21st Century: Profligacy and Promise
  • Beata Zawadka
  • Part 1 Spatial-Temporal Performance of Identity
  • Spatial and Temporal Theories of Performatives and Performativity
  • Tomasz Basiuk
  • Representation of Migration Experience in The Dollmaker by Hariette Arnow
  • Irina Kudriavtseva
  • Performative Identity in Selected English-Language Works about Wales and the Welsh
  • Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup
  • Part 2 Performative Female Identity
  • Domestic Performance in the Jim Crow South
  • Black Mammies and White Tomboys in Kathryn Stockett's The Help , Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman and Katherine Anne Porter's Miranda Stories
  • Susana María Jiménez-Placer
  • 'The Purest Patriotism Nerved Him to His Ceaseless Labors': Rebels Performing Patriotism in Augusta Jane Evans's Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice (1864)
  • Peter Templeton
  • Performing the British Gentlewoman in Ellen Wood's East Lynne and Amy Levy's The Romance of a Shop
  • Maria Juko
  • Part 3 Performing Racial and National Identity
  • Material Objects as Scripts for Performance in Jacqueline Woodson's Children's Picture Books
  • Ewa Klęczaj-Siara
  • #NoDAPL as a Performance of Indigenous Identity and Sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux
  • Elżbieta Wilczyńska
  • "It's a Complex Fate, Being an American": Performing Americanness in Henry James's Late Writings
  • Urszula Gołębiowska
  • Part 4 Othering as (Post)Performance
  • (Self)Performativity as an Act of Resistance to Social/Symbolic Death in David Wojnarowicz's Close to the Knives
  • Krystian Marcin Grądz
  • The South [Is] in The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017)
  • Beata Zawadka
  • In Football Terms: The Performativity and Performance of Football Twitter
  • Christopher MacMahon
  • Index.