Performativity and Performance

Performativity and Performance By Andrew Parker, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
1995 | 125 Pages | ISBN: 0415910544 | PDF | 19 MB
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.