ABSTRACT

Using performative writing to survey performative writing’s tenets, Section 1 of the chapter begins and ends with an explication of a series of quotes that present different perspectives on the method. Section 1 defines performative writing in contrast to other forms of performance, by offering five different ways of establishing performative writing, and by presenting a series of performative writing claims that reveal the author’s affective state at that point in the chapter. Section 2 gives the reader a number of performative writing prompts to engage, and Section 3 ends the chapter with a performative writing essay entitled “Still Here, Writing, Trying to Be a Part of the Conversation.”