Performative identities in niviaq korneliussen's novel “homo sapienne” /

This bachelor thesis analyses how gender identities are constructed in contemporary Greenlandic author Niviaq Korneliussen’s novel „HOMO sapienne“ (2014) by employing Judith Butler’s theory of performativity. The analysis seeks to show how gender identities are constructed on a thematical and discur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plioplytė, Gintė
Format: Bachelor Thesis
Language:Lithuanian
English
Published: Institutional Repository of Vilnius University 2021
Subjects:
Niviaq Korneliussen
Judith Butler
gender performativity
heterosexual matrix
abject
intertext
intermedial reference. Niviaq Korneliussen
lyties performatyvumas
heteroseksulumo matrica
abjektas
intertekstas
intermedialioji nuoroda
greenlandic
Online Access:https://repository.vu.lt/VU:ELABAETD193229109&prefLang=en_US
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Summary:This bachelor thesis analyses how gender identities are constructed in contemporary Greenlandic author Niviaq Korneliussen’s novel „HOMO sapienne“ (2014) by employing Judith Butler’s theory of performativity. The analysis seeks to show how gender identities are constructed on a thematical and discursive levels of the novel. The analysis also incorporates Gérard Genette’s paratextuality and Irina O. Rajewsky’s concept of intermedial references in order to explore different modalities (photographs, songs) within the text and their role in the identity formation of the characters. The analysis showed that the novel seeks to subvert the binary understanding of gender and to transpose the heteronormative matrix thus introducing a new identity that is not marked with gender.

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