Culture and Performance : The Challenge of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theo...

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Publication Name: Culture and Performance : the Challenge of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theory Item Weight: 8.3 Oz height: 0.3 in Subject Area: Social Science Type: Textbook Item Width: 6.1 in Format: Trade Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Pages ISBN: 9781845201050 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Item Height: 0.3 in Author: Vikki Bell Book Title: Culture and Performance : The Challenge of Ethics, Politics and F Publication Year: 2007 Subject: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Anthropology / Cultural & Social Item Length: 9.2 in Language: English width: 6.1 in

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Culture and Performance : The Challenge of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theo.... Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from the textual nature of the world to how the social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. Culture and Performance : The Challenge of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theory, Paperback by Bell, Vikki, ISBN 1845201051, ISBN-13 9781845201050, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn', shifting its focus from the textual nature of the world to how the social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted. The rise of performativity in cultural theory - spearheaded in many ways by feminist theory - has profound implications for the way we think about ethics and politics. Indeed, as it concerns all aspects of 'difference', it reshapes the ways we think about the continuities and interruptions of social life and Performance explores the development and direction of the notion of performativity. It interrogates the idea of subjectivity, the possibility of ethics and, beyond this, it explores new ways of thinking political imaginations and possibilities. It traces the implications of the concept, and assesses the critique that is emerging from a renewed interest in creativity.