The performance turn in narrative studies

Peterson, Eric E.; Langellier, Kristin M.

doi:10.1075/bct.6.21pet

In:Narrative – State of the Art
Edited by Michael Bamberg
[Benjamins Current Topics 6] 2007
► pp. 205–213

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The performance turn in narrative studies

Eric E. Peterson | University of Maine

Kristin M. Langellier

Published online: 14 March 2007

https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.6.21pet

The turn to performance re-situates narrative as an object of study: narrative is both a making and a doing. The performance turn emphasizes narrative embodied in communication practices, constrained by situational and material conditions, embedded in fields of discourse, and strategically distributed to reproduce and critique existing relations of power and knowledge.

Keywords: Body, Discourse, Performance, Performative, Poiesis, Praxis, Strategy

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