Performativity and performance
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Performativity and performance
（Essays from the English Institute）
Routledge, 1995
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Papers presented at the English Institute, 1993
Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-237)
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ISBN 9780415910545
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The performance of one's gender and one's sexuality is now widely seen to be key to debates around identity politics. This collection brings together some of the best-known scholars in the field, from Judith Butler to Cindy Patton. It offers an examination and contribution to contemporary work both in gender studies and in literary and cultural theory, seeks to present a rigorous challenge to conventional thinking about agency, subjectivity, and above all, identity.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415910552
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From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers and activists have wresteled with what "performance" is all about. At the same moment, "performativity"--a new concept in language theory--has become a ubiquitous term in literary studies. This volume grapples with the nature of these two key terms whose traces can be found everywhere: in the theatre, in the streets, in philosophy, in questions of race and gender, and in the sentences we speak.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION, ANDREW PARKER, EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK
- Chapter 1 THE UNHAPPY PERFORMATIVE, TIMOTHY GOULD
- Chapter 2 CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE, JOSEPH ROACH
- Chapter 3 WRITING THE ABSENT POTENTIAL, SANDRA L. RICHARDS
- Chapter 4 TRAUMATIC AWAKENINGS, CATHY CARUTH
- Chapter 5 KATHARSIS, ANDREW FORD
- Chapter 6 THE PLAY OF CONSCIENCE, STEPHEN ORGEL
- Chapter 7 THE SHUDDER CATHARSIS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY PERFORMANCE, ELIN DIAMOND
- Chapter 8 PERFORMATIVITY AND SPATIAL DISTINCTION, CINDY PATTON
- Chapter 9 BURNING ACTS, JUDITH BUTLER
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