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

• Main Author: Plioplytė, Gintė
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: 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

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.