Political Performances
This project takes a comparative view of recent contrasting cultural vehicles for socio-political protest: first, the recent phenomenon of ‘pop-feminism’ and pop-feminist writing across the United States, Britain, and Germany. A complex contemporary feminist discourse exploring the question of how women go about establishing selfhood and agency in a postfeminist neoliberal climate, pop-feminism is finding expression in popular feminist guides, as well as in complex autofictions and literary blogging online. The project also investigates performance poetry as a contemporary ‘world literary’ phenomenon and its potential for modelling future possibilities in literary led creative practices and their ability to address pressing social issues.