Performativity confounded: agency, resistance, and the history of politeness

IF 0.6 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Soile Ylivuori
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ABSTRACT This essay compares Judith Butler’s and Erving Goffman’s theoretical contributions to performance and performativity with the goal of bridging their approaches, usually seen as mutually incompatible. Using eighteenth-century women’s politeness as a case study, it argues that politeness is a practice that is essentially both performed and performative; analysing it as such offers us valuable new information on eighteenth-century subjectivities. The essay suggests that combining performance and performativity can be used to reconceptualize agency and find a way out of the Butlerian impasse of the impossibility of resistance. Performance thus has the potential to confound the paralyzing non-agency of performativity.
表演性困惑:代理、抵抗和礼貌的历史
摘要本文比较了Judith Butler和Erving Goffman对表演和表演性的理论贡献,目的是弥合他们通常被视为相互矛盾的方法。本文以十八世纪女性礼貌为例,认为礼貌是一种既有表演性又有表演性的行为;这样分析它为我们提供了关于十八世纪主观主义的有价值的新信息。本文认为,将表演性和表演性相结合,可以重新定义代理,并找到一条摆脱巴特勒式的不可能抵抗僵局的途径。因此,表演有可能混淆表演性的麻痹性非能动性。
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Text and Performance Quarterly
Text and Performance Quarterly HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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