They aren't, until I call them [[electronic resource] ] : performing the subject in American literature / / Enikő Bollobás

• Autore: Bollobás Enikő
• Pubblicazione: Frankfurt am Main ; ; New York, : Peter Lang, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 820
• Soggetto topico: American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Performance in literature; American literature - Themes, motives
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE 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 ; The 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 ; Performances 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 ; Performative genders: non-compliance with social norms (Gertrude Stein, Three Lives Willa Cather, My Ántonia; 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 ; The 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
• Titolo autorizzato: They aren't, until I call them
• ISBN: 1-299-41041-3; 3-653-00209-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910306598903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II