Performative Identities in Culture

From Literature to Social Media
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-70384-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 108, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

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, American, Welsh), film, art, social media, and sports. Within these contexts, the book raises a number of questions relevant today. How is minority culture constructed and performed in literature? How can one manifest identity in multicultural contexts? How has performativity been transformed in audiovisual media, like film, video games and social media? And, can the digital itself be performative?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jaworska-Biskup, Katarzyna

Zawadka, Beata

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Kleczaj-Siara

#NoDAPL as a Performance of Indigenous Identity and Sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux

Elzbieta Wilczynska

“It’s a Complex Fate, Being an American”: Performing Americanness in Henry James’s Late Writings

Urszula Golebiowska

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 Gradz

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

Über Autor(innen)

Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup is Associate Professor at the Institute of Literature and New Media at the University of Szczecin. Her academic interests include Welsh literature, history, and culture. She also conducts research in law and literature.

Beata Zawadka is Associate Professor in the Institute of Literature and New Media at Szczecin University, Poland. She is a literary scholar by education, southernist by specialisation, and an ardent cinephile. At present she teaches mainly film. Her new book will be on the reception of digital cinema.