Performativity and PerformanceAndrew Parker, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 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. |
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Contents
Performativity and Performance | 1 |
1 The Unhappy Performative | 19 |
2 Culture and Performance in the CircumAtlantic World | 45 |
Drama Performance and the Canon of AfricanAmerican Literature | 64 |
4 Traumatic Awakenings | 89 |
The Ancient Problem | 109 |
6 The Play of Conscience | 133 |
7 The Shudder of Catharsis in TwentiethCentury Performance | 152 |
8 Performativity and Spatial Distinction the End of Aids Epidemiology | 173 |
9 Burning ActsInjurious Speech | 197 |
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Contributors | 238 |
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