Performing Identities and Utopias of Belonging

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5148-0
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten

Performing Identities and Utopias of Belonging consists of sixteen essays, reflecting the current conflicted debate on the ontology, constructiveness and affect of categories of ascribed social identity such as gender, ethnicity, race and nation, in the context of British, Irish and North American cultural landscapes. They address the many ways in which these communities of belonging are imagined, iterated, performed, questioned, and deconstructed in literature, cinema and visual culture; they also support or counter claims about the enhanced value of social identity in the expression of the self in the light of the present debates that surround the contested post-identity turn in cultural studies. Significantly, they also address the role of social identity in the field of utopian and dystopian thought, focusing on the projection of imagined futures where alternative means of conceiving ascribed identity are conceptualized.

The contributions are shaped by a plurality of approaches and theoretical discourses, and come from both established and emerging scholars and researchers from Europe and beyond. The collection is structured in three sections – the politics of (un)belonging, deconstructing utopian and cultural paradigms, and performing identities in the visual arts – which organize the multidisciplinary discussions around specific nuclei of interrogations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Botelho, Teresa

Ramos, Iolanda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Futurologie (Interdisziplinär)

Über Autor(innen)

Teresa Botelho teaches American Studies at the NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Op.Cit., the Journal of the Portuguese Association of English and American Studies. Her research interests focus on identity and performativity in artistic and literary American expressions, and on utopian and dystopian narratives and their relationship with race and ethnicity. She has written extensively on Asian American and African American literature, theatre and art.

Iolanda Ramos teaches English Studies, Cultural Studies and Translation Studies at the NOVA University of Lisbon. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal, and has published numerous essays on Victorian studies and Neo-Victorianism within the framework of utopian studies, as well as on intercultural, visual, gender and imperial issues.