What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine literature as a performative practice that creates and maintains communities through various actions.

February 25, 2026Open Access

Performativity

Key Points

To examine literature as a performative practice that creates and maintains communities through various actions.
Curated collection of contributions
Focus on literature's performative aspects
Engagement with artistic and digital contexts
Interdisciplinary approach to literature
Analysis of literature's role in community building
Literature is shown to be a dynamic and performative practice.
Communities are continually shaped through literature's transmission and performance.
Literature is actively rewritten and remediated in various contexts.

Abstract

This curated collection approaches literature as a performative practice that actively builds and sustains temporal communities across time. It understands literature as something that happens in action (through transmission, performance and use) within dynamic networks of human and non-human actors. Focusing on performativity as both a methodological lens and a field of inquiry, the contributions to this curated collection explore how literature is continually rewritten, remediated and renegotiated in artistic, digital and interdisciplinary contexts.

Performativity

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