‘Honestly questioning the notion of whether you can be a good white person in a system of white supremacy’ A University of Portland theater featured Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse’s “The ...

This week, Judith Butler joins panelists Roy Blount, Jr., Maz Jobrani, and Faith Salie to talk about gender, performativity, and their dream of becoming a clown.

These essays,""a palimpsest of previously published and unpublished material,"" find Sedgwick expanding her impressive critical powers to areas beyond literature and politics. Though she's best known ...

A concept that has significantly influenced gender theory, gender performativity enables a more fluid understanding of gender by challenging fixed notions of identity. Poststructuralist scholar Judith ...

This article examines characterisation and symbolism as narrative strategies that challenge anti-LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex) cultures in four short stories – Stanley ...

Performance and performativity have proved to be highly productive concepts for understanding the social worlds of medieval texts in diverse literary, linguistic and historical contexts. Through ...

Comparative Education, Vol. 32, No. 2, Special Number (18): Comaparative Education and Post-Modernity (Jun., 1996), pp. 245-258 (14 pages) The article identifies, comparatively, the crisis of the ...

Performativity as a concept was first developed by the philosopher of language John L. Austin to define the capability of language as a mode of action and not just as a mode of description. It ran ...