Periperformative Life Narrative
Published in GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies • May 12, 2016
Authors:
Anna Poletti
Abstract
This essay reconsiders the importance of performativity to scholarship on life writing by exploring the potential of Eve Sedgwick's concept of the periper-formative utterance for reading queer life narratives. Taking the documentary Tarnation (2003) as an example, I argue that a range of life narrat...
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