Undetermined Subjectivity through Unusual Performance
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| Title | Undetermined Subjectivity through Unusual Performance |
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| Abstract | This paper will works on Margaret Atwood, the Alias Grace. It will explore the subjectivity alongside the discussion of performativity of gender .In this paper, we ask how Butler’s idea on gender and identity can help us to understand that some legal actions produce the subject, the woman. It will explore that how the court fails to provides Grace with the opportunity to explain her perceived ‘grotesque’ behavior. By constructing Grace as a ‘grotesque woman’ the court at the same time bars Grace from explaining her ‘grotesque’ behavior. Thus, she is silenced or implicitly censored although Grace as a female gender constructs a new subjective performance and she achieves it though madness and memory. |
| Publisher | World Science Publisher |
| Date | 2012-03-14 |
| Source | 2167-6429 |
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