Performative Identities in Culture : From Literature to Social Media / edited by Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup and Beata Zawadka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaworska-Biskup, Katarzyna, editor.

Zawadka, Beata, editor.

Series:

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; Volume 108.

Textxet ; Volume 108

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance.

Arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2024]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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?

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)

In Football Terms: The Performativity and Performance of Football Twitter

Christopher MacMahon

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004703858

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004703858 DOI