Performativity and Performance

Name: Performativity and Performance
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ISBN: 9780415910552

ISBN-10: 0415910552

ISBN-13: 9780415910552

Edition: 1996

Authors: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Andrew Parker

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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. Suddenly, theatre studies has transformed itself the study of plays to the study of performance. At the same moment, "performativity"--a new concept in language theory--has become a ubiquitous term in literary studies. What do these transformations have to do with one another. Is "performativity" necessarily theatrical? Are performances necessarily `performative'? This volume of new work by leading scholars in a range of fields grapples with the nature of these two key terms whose traces can be found everywhere: in the theatre, in the streets, in…

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List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/24/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwickis Distinguished Professor of English at City University of New York Graduate Center. Her books includeBetween Men, Tendencies, A Dialogue on Love,andTouching Feeling.

JOHN HARRIS is an Associate Professor at the School of Exercise, Leisure and Sport at Kent State University. ANDREW PARKER is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Performativity and Performance




The Unhappy Performative




Culture and Performance in the Circum-Atlantic World




Writing the Absent Potential: Drama, Performance, and the Canon of African-American Literature




Traumatic Awakenings




Katharsis: The Ancient Problem




The Play of Conscience




The Shudder of Catharsis in Twentieth-Century Performance




Performativity and Spatial Distinction: The End of AIDS Epidemiology




Burning Acts - Injurious Speech



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