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

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

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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, Like New Used, 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.