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Performativity and RaceOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The thesis intends to explore the racial identities in three of Naomi Wallaceʼs plays and how these identities are performative, within the theoretical framework of Judith Butlerʼs performativity theory. These racial identities fight and defy the American power structure, hoping for gaining agency and power. Chapter One focuses on performativity theory, exploring the main notions proposed by Butler, and how it applies to race and identity formation. Chapter Two tackles The War Boys that highlights the racism embedded in the American society towards the Chicano identity, and how it subordinates Mexicans and those of hybrid race and persecutes them. Chapter Three analyses Things of Dry Hours which explores the black vs. white conflict, where black subjects face racism and fight for agency. Chapter Four introduces The Fever chart: Three Visions of the Middle East, highlighting the struggle of the marginalised Arab identity in the eyes of the Americanised history. The chapter investigates three short plays that take place in the Arab world, where the Palestinian-Israeli and the Gulf War are the background of these plays. The journeys of the marginalised racial identities in the plays under-study are traced from subordination and injury, to subversion of power-balance and norms, and they eventually gain agency.