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100 1 _aBollobás, Enikö,
_eauthor
245 0 _aThey Aren’t, Until I Call Them
246 _aPerforming the Subject in American Literature
264 1 _aBern
_bPeter Lang International Academic Publishers
_c2010
300 _a1 online resource (236 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 _aIn the story of the three baseball umpires, two novice umpires compete in boasting how they respect «truth» and the way things «really» are. One says, «I call them the way I see them»; the other, trying to trump this remark, responds, «I call them the way they are». Then enters the third, most seasoned umpire, saying, «They aren’t, until I call them».<BR> This book deals with two widely argued issues in literature criticism today, performativity and subjectivity. How do people become who they are? What scripts do they follow when they «do» gender, race, and sexuality? Tying into speech act theories and subjectivity theories, as well as gender, race, and sexuality studies, the author explores : through the close reading of several American texts : the many ways words make «things» in literature.
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653 _aAren’T
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856 _uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26694/1/1003367.pdfhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26694
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