num_pages: 248
description: 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.
language: English
title: Performativity and Performance
publisher: Routledge