LEADER 04276 am 22005893u 450 001 9910306598903321 005 20200813202757.0 010 $a1-299-41041-3 010 $a3-653-00209-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000253098 035 $a(EBL)1056385 035 $a(OCoLC)818880609 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000721912 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12296929 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721912 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10694314 035 $a(PQKB)10739268 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1056385 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000253098 100 $a20100513d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThey aren't, until I call them$b[electronic resource] $eperforming the subject in American literature /$fEniko? Bolloba?s 210 $aFrankfurt am Main ;$aNew York $cPeter Lang$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-631-58982-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7; INTRODUCTION 9; CHAPTER ONE: THE STRONG PERFORMATIVE 25; The performative: early history 25; Logos, the originary instance of the strong performative: some Biblical examples 31; A performative genre par excellence: the declaration and the manifesto 38; Word power (Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Norman Mailer, 'The Time of Her Time') 45; Alternative realities as performative creations (Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger; Ambrose Bierce, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge') 50 327 $aThe language games of irony and make-believe (Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) 59CHAPTER TWO: EXTENDING THE PERFORMATIVE 71; Performativity in theories of the subject 73; Performance and performative constructions of the subject 85; Performativity of reading and writing 89; Presupposition 92; Presupposition and the (performative) production of meaning 93; CHAPTER THREE: PERFORMING GENDER 97; Recipes for men and women: gender as (hetero)sexualized performance 103; Gender performances and performative genders 106 327 $aPerformances of gender compliance (Henry James, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie; Kate Chopin, The Awakening, 'A Pair of Silk Stockings'; Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth) 108; The performance of cultural codes: the Southern woman (William Faulkner, 'A Rose for Emily'; Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire; Flannery O'Connor, 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find') 120; Some misogynist reversals (Jonathan Swift, 'A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed,' T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land) 129 327 $aPerformative genders: non-compliance with social norms (Gertrude Stein, Three Lives Willa Cather, My A?ntonia; Djuna Barnes, Nightwood; H.D., HERmione; Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe) 131; CHAPTER FOUR: PERFORMING SEXUALITY 151; The new kid on the block of binary thinking: conceptualizing the homosexual 153; The resisting narrative: homosexual subtext beneath the heterosexual text (Henry James, 'The Beast in the Jungle,' 'In the Cage') 156; CHAPTER FIVE: PERFORMING PASSING 167; Gender passing (Mark Twain, Is He Dead?; Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; David Hwang, M. Butterfly) 168 327 $aThe convergence of categories: race and class passing (James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Nella Larsen, Passing; Philip Roth, The Human Stain) 182; CONCLUSION 201; WORKS CITED 205; INDEX 225 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPerformance in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$xThemes, motives 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPerformance in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xThemes, motives. 676 $a820 700 $aBolloba?s$b Eniko?$0946663 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910306598903321 996 $aThey aren't, until I call them$92138861 997 $aUNINA