Performativity and Performance - Essays from the English Institute

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.

List 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;

About the author

Andrew Parker, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Summary

The performance of one's gender and 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Andrew Parker (Editor), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Editor), Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.1995
• EAN: 9780415910552
• ISBN: 978-0-415-91055-2
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Essays from the English Institute
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity