Articulations
Peer-reviewed articles on “Temporal Communities”
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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…
When viewed through the lens of performance theory, communities have always appeared temporal. Such a processual view is reflected in concepts such as the ‘theatrical community’ or the ‘aesthetic community’, which have been negotiated in the arts and humanities since the 1990s. However, according to the argument of this Insight, such communities have a strong…
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This insight examines the multiple forms of framing the translated book ‘Bashai Tudu’ has undergone, demonstrating that (re)framing is an activity that operates in and outside the text. These acts of reframing take the form of re-anthologisation, republication and translation, generating new (literary) contexts and audiences. Framing through paratextuality and intertextuality alongside extratextuality is closely…
