Performative Identities in Culture

Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup is Associate Professor at the Institute of Literature and New Media at the University of Szczecin. Her academic interests include Welsh literature, history, and culture. She also conducts research in law and literature.Beata Zawadka is Associate Professor in the Institute of Literature and New Media at Szczecin University, Poland. She is a literary scholar by education, southernist by specialisation, and an ardent cinephile. At present she teaches mainly film. Her new book will be on the reception of digital cinema.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Performativity in the 21st Century: Profligacy and PromiseBeata ZawadkaPart 1 Spatial-Temporal Performance of IdentitySpatial and Temporal Theories of Performatives and PerformativityTomasz BasiukRepresentation of Migration Experience in The Dollmaker by Hariette ArnowIrina KudriavtsevaPerformative Identity in Selected English-Language Works about Wales and the WelshKatarzyna Jaworska-BiskupPart 2 Performative Female IdentityDomestic Performance in the Jim Crow SouthBlack Mammies and White Tomboys in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman and Katherine Anne Porter’s Miranda StoriesSusana María Jiménez-Placer‘The Purest Patriotism Nerved Him to His Ceaseless Labors’: Rebels Performing Patriotism in Augusta Jane Evans’s Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice (1864)Peter TempletonPerforming the British Gentlewoman in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne and Amy Levy’s The Romance of a ShopMaria JukoPart 3 Performing Racial and National IdentityMaterial Objects as Scripts for Performance in Jacqueline Woodson’s Children’s Picture BooksEwa Klęczaj-Siara#NoDAPL as a Performance of Indigenous Identity and Sovereignty of the Standing Rock SiouxElżbieta Wilczyńska“It’s a Complex Fate, Being an American”: Performing Americanness in Henry James’s Late WritingsUrszula GołębiowskaPart 4 Othering as (Post)Performance(Self)Performativity as an Act of Resistance to Social/Symbolic Death in David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the KnivesKrystian Marcin GrądzThe South [Is] in The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017)Beata ZawadkaIn Football Terms: The Performativity and Performance of Football TwitterChristopher MacMahonIndex