The Romanian Revolution of 1989 ended 42 years of Communist rule. It was the bloodiest revolution in a Warsaw Pact country, culminating in the overthrow and execution of Nicolae Ceausescu. However, there was no major democratic reform and power remained in the hands of key figur…
This book explores the Romanian Revolution in relation to the ongoing questions around its authenticity. It offers a critical theoretical re-examination of the revolution using the concept of performative contradiction as an analytic tool.
Since the publication of this book speech-act theory has continued to play a central and defining role in the theories of sexuality, gender, performance studies, post-colonial studies, and cultural studies.
Through a self-consciously partial and incomplete genealogy, this book historicizes and examines queer performativity while questioning its very bases. The key argument of In Between Subjects is that, by interrogating how queer performance and gender performativity have come to …
Performativity -- Relationality -- Theatricality -- Queer -- Other -- Trans. "Through a self-consciously partial and incomplete genealogy, this book historicizes and examines queer performativity while questioning its very bases. The key argument of In Between Subjects is that,…
"Through a self-consciously partial and incomplete genealogy, this book historicizes and examines queer performativity while questioning its very bases. The key argument of In Between Subjects is that, by interrogating how queer performance and gender performativity have come to…
"Through a self-consciously partial and incomplete genealogy, this book historicizes and examines queer performativity while questioning its very bases. The key argument of In Between Subjects is that, by interrogating how queer performance and gender performativity have come to…
"Through a self-consciously partial and incomplete genealogy, this book historicizes and examines queer performativity while questioning its very bases. The key argument of In Between Subjects is that, by interrogating how queer performance and gender performativity have come to…
"A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's next?" for this well-worn concept"--
"A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's next?" for this well-worn concept"--Provided by publisher
"A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's next?" for this well-worn concept"--Provided by publisher.