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Gender Performativity Seema 2
Gender Performativity Seema 2
4. To apply the theory of gender performativity to the selected novels of Burns, Tyrel and
Flynn.
● Identity is Performative.
Dark Places
● Plot revolves around a serial killer
Selected Work :
Little Construction
● Darkly comic and Ironic take
● About a woman from the family of criminals.
Milkman
● Set during The Troubles in northern
● 18 years old girl harassed by Milkman.
Research Gap:
● By broadening the twin concepts of Gender Performativity and Gender Interpellation and
forming a unification of the two which has not been done before.
● The texts of these three authors will be compared and contrasted in light of these theories
which have not been done.
Research Methodology:
● The concepts of Gender Performativity and Gender Interpellation will be broadened by bringing
under their ambit the selected texts of the three authors.
● The texts will be critically analysed using qualitative research to explore the extremes of both
patriarchy and feminism through Butlerian critique of gendered discourses in selected novels.
● The study will seek to bring out the Performativity aspects of gender and Interpellation of ideology
as depicted in selected novels
Literature Review:
• Work: Performativity,Parody,Politics
Findings/Abstract: This paper analysis the post structural feminist notion of subjectivity
point to a notion of the self that is fluid, contradictory, and produced in relationship
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Work: Judith Butler on Performativity And Precarity: Exploratory thoughts on
gender and violence in India .
Author: Russell Belk And Rishi Bhardwaj
Abstract/Findings: This article discusses the theories of Judith Butler for insight
into how gender Performativity affects and thus individual agency.
Author: Li He
Work: 'Boying'the boy and 'girling 'the girl: From affective Interpellation to trans –emotionality
Author:Igi Moon
Abstract/Findings: This paper discusses about the Interpellation of emotions for feeling is
thus a major part of the socialization process used to construct cis-gendered bodies.
Work: Culture, ideology, Interpellation
Abstract/Findings: This book discusses how we are given a sense of being individual
subjects by being addressed in certain ways by our culture.
Work :"The trouble Goes Back to Your Grandfather's time": Masculinity and Domestic Spaces
In Anne Tyler's A Spool of Blue Thread
Abstract/Findings: This paper interprets the texts as a subversive narrative where hegemonic
gender norms oppress women and children.
Work: Antagonist Performance as a Contest of Gender Identity in Anna Burns 'Milkman and Little
Constructions
Author:kevihetou Agnes
Abstract/Findings: In Milkman and Little Constructions, Burns presents the tense atmosphere
built up on account of Troubles in Northern Ireland which has intensified the identity crisis
experienced by the individuals.
Abstract/Findings: This paper explores the gendered power relations by applying Butler's theory of
gender Performativity to analyse the gendered discourse Burns 'Milkman .
Work: Gender and Performativity in Contemporary American Novels:A Butlerian Reading Of Gone Girl
By Gillian Flynn
Abstract/Findings: This paper investigates Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl in the terms of Butlerian concepts of
gender and Performativity.
Author:Noela Davis
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