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Performative Identities in Culture
From Literature to Social Media
Series: - Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 108
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?
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.
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.
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Performativity in the 21st Century: Profligacy and Promise
Beata Zawadka
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
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
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
(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
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
Scholars and students of: cultural studies, film studies, British/American/Welsh literature, identity studies, performance studies.