Unity and Closure: A Performatist Reading of Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Clicks: 7
ID: 336388
2022
Free PDF
Article Quality & Performance Metrics
Overall Quality
Not rated
Combines reader engagement with the AI quality analysis. This article has not been analysed, so there is no overall score — reader engagement is measured and shown alongside.
AI Quality Assessment
Not analyzed
Readership in this journal
Emerging

Ranked #1,014 of 1,121 articles by views in Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review

Most read Least read

Bar heights use a square-root scale. Only the 120 most-read articles are drawn; the journal has 1,121 in total.

Mint this article as an NFT
Not yet minted

Create a permanent, verifiable on-chain record of this article on the Scimatic Network. The NFT is held in your Journament account, and you can withdraw it to your own wallet at any time.

5 SUSD one-off · no wallet required
Sign in to mint
Abstract
The current research paper attempts at exploring and analyzing Performatism with its various features in a contemporary American novel Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo. The study is developed in the background of the recent propositions in literary theory which have tried to emphasize and argue that postmodernism is dead or in the process of dying and is being replaced by new theoretical and methodological concepts like metamodernism, remodernism, digimodernism, hypermodernism, performatism, post-postmodernism etc. However, there is so far no consensus as to which literary theory is the most suitable one to define the current cultural moment. Performatism is also considered to be one of the leading and most systematic theories that tries to chart cultural changes in the contemporary art and literature breaking away from the split concepts of sign to the unified one aiming for specific closure of the work. Monism, double framing, opaque subjectivity and theism are its salient features which need to be explored and analysed in the work to ascertain if performatism really be the answer to the dilemma of defining literary moment after postmodernism. Textual analysis of Poet X suggests that there is substantial evidence of performatist features in the novel yet there are also certain postmodern features present in the background.
Reference Key
imported_1793230734_6ae2878e2e618 Use this key to autocite in the manuscript while using SciMatic Manuscript Manager or Thesis Manager
Authors Munawar Iqbal Ahmad
Are you one of these authors? Claim your profile
Journal Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review
Year 2022
DOI
10.47205/plhr.2022(6-II)06
URL
https://ojs.plhr.org.pk/journal/article/view/36
Keywords Keywords not found

Citations

No citations found. To add a citation, contact the admin at info@scimatic.org

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to comment on this article.