"...that wondrous thing about the human being, it can change" : Performativity and Agency in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
This essay uses the concept of performativity to illustrate how identity change and the possibility to shape one’s identity, agency, are treated in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient. Originally a theory introduced by queer theorist Judith Butler, performativity explains how a sense of identity...
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Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten
2009
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-4393 |