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E-book Under Construction : Performing Critical Identity

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At the turn of the 2020s, identity seems to remain an omnipresent and somewhatunseizable term, serving different views in and outside academia, in politics,in everyday talk, in intellectual and popular jargon, as well as in the arts. While,currently, identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend tosimplify and reduce life experience to simple factors globally regain massive attention,it becomes inevitable to recollect the thorough discussions of identity concepts of thepast decades, which had moved away from such notions—concepts which also reflectan awareness of and capacity to deal with the complexity and diversity of the worldwe live in. However, this volume, “Under Construction: Performing Critical Identity”,does not aim to provide a comprehensive overview of identity concepts, nor to developa uniform definition or theory of identity. Rather, it strives to add new and criticalpositions and perspectives to an ongoing discussion, as dealing with the concept ofidentity remains relevant for a wide range of academic and artistic disciplines, takingdifferent aspects of identity into account. These presented perspectives promise tooffer innovative insights by focusing on performance and the performative as bothan artistic practice and mode of expression and as a process of constructing identity.While, to some, the idea of identity might be suspicious because of the danger ofessentialism, and also because of the incoherent definitions and understandingsof the term, it is precisely this openness that also offers the potential for escapingsuch fixations—an openness clearly reflected in the diversity of identity notionsoffered by the contributions in this volume. Linking these different perspectives,this volume stresses the notion that social identities such as gender, sexuality, race,class, dis/ability, age or non/religiosity are closely linked to the historical, social,regional and political dimensions of their formation. From this perspective, identitiesare hardly one-dimensional but complex and intersectional, and are rather to bethought of as a process of identification and belonging than as a consistent essence.In terms of identity, otherwise understood as, for example, a (cognitive) self-image,as a habitual imprint, as a social role or attribution, as a performative achievement, as a constructed narrative, etc.,1it is not only the individual who is in the spotlight,but also culture, society or community as bearers of identities.Artists have always played a major role in the potential reflection andtransformation of perceptions and conceptions of the world, and their artistic praxisand positionings have been key to the development of processual and pluralisticconcepts of identity, which gained momentum in the 1990s in the face of a changing,globalizing and postmodern world. Famously, Judith Butler refers to the theatricalityof drag for her concept of the performativity of gendered identity (Butler 1990),and Stuart Hall’s influential concept of cultural identity was closely interwovenwith his personal and intellectual connection to the British Black Arts Movement(Hall 1992; Fisher 2014).

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

700 KOH u

Penerbit

Switzerland : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

230 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783038975007

Klasifikasi

700

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Arts

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