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 Contributors



Introduction: Performativity in the 21st Century: Profligacy and Promise

 Beata Zawadka



Part 1 Spatial-Temporal Performance of Identity



Spatial and Temporal Theories of Performatives and Performativity

 Tomasz Basiuk



Representation of Migration Experience in The Dollmaker by Hariette Arnow

 Irina Kudriavtseva



Performative Identity in Selected English-Language Works about Wales and the Welsh

 Katarzyna Jaworska-Biskup



Part 2 Performative Female Identity



Domestic Performance in the Jim Crow South

Black 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 Stories

 Susana 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 Templeton



Performing the British Gentlewoman in Ellen Wood’s East Lynne and Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop

 Maria Juko



Part 3 Performing Racial and National Identity



Material Objects as Scripts for Performance in Jacqueline Woodson’s Children’s Picture Books

 Ewa Klęczaj-Siara



#NoDAPL as a Performance of Indigenous Identity and Sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux

 Elżbieta Wilczyńska



“It’s a Complex Fate, Being an American”: Performing Americanness in Henry James’s Late Writings

 Urszula Gołębiowska



Part 4 Othering as (Post)Performance



(Self)Performativity as an Act of Resistance to Social/Symbolic Death in David Wojnarowicz’s Close to the Knives

 Krystian Marcin Grądz



The South [Is] in The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017)

 Beata Zawadka



In Football Terms: The Performativity and Performance of Football Twitter

 Christopher MacMahon



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