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

• Superior document: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025
• TeilnehmendeR: Jaworska-Biskup, Katarzyna,; Zawadka, Beata,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.; Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 108.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 pages)

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?

Table of 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) -- Beata Zawadka -- In Football Terms: The Performativity and Performance of Football Twitter -- Christopher MacMahon -- Index.