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A Second Take

On Performative Writing and Reading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2024

Peggy Phelan
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Abstract

In the 1990s, performative writing and reading attempted to disrupt the rhetorical and ideological structure of scholarly writing. Performative readings helped expose the ways in which scholarly claims to truth-telling—as in Clifford Geertz’s influential essay on the Balinese cockfight—obscured violent or oppressive rhetorical operations. While most performative writing and reading concentrated on the essay form, experiments with public lectures and creative adaptations of scholarly texts were also undertaken. The verve of performative writing and reading tapered off as other issues came to the fore.

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TDR , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , June 2024 , pp. 11 - 23
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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