The Performativity of Terrorism: Subversive Experimentalist Techniques in Pornography (2007) by Simon Stephens

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2022

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Yildirim, Seyda Nur

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Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd

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Although terrorism has a complex genealogy as a political concept, contemporary discussions on new terrorism use a reductionist discourse on the legitimacy of violence. In this article, I discuss the performativity of terrorism - its repetitive, citational, and necessarily discursive composition within the established social system - in the context of Pornography (2007) by Simon Stephens. I argue that subversion of conventional playwriting techniques in Pornography reveals the complex social and political dynamics that continually refigure terrorism as the counter-image of war.

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Terrorism, performativity, experimental theater, Performance, Simon Stephens, Performance, Pornography

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Text and Performance Quarterly

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42

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34

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48