Graduation Year
2016
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Reader 1
Thomas Koenigs
Reader 2
Michelle Decker
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© 2016 McNeary K. Nora
Abstract
This thesis discusses performative identity in Djuna Barnes' The Ladies Almanack and Nightwood. Barnes' characters create and perform their identities as an attempt to escape or subvert patriarchal norms and societal prejudices. In analyzing the marginalized performative identity categories (race, class, gender, sexuality), one can glean an understanding of the complex social tensions present during Barnes' era, and understand the socially constructed, confining nature of identity itself.
Recommended Citation
McNeary, Nora K., "Performative Identity in Djuna Barnes' The Ladies Almanack and Nightwood" (2016). Scripps Senior Theses. 848.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/848
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
