Editing Performative writing (section)

==Overview==
Performative writing is often practiced by [[feminist]] writers. A notable current writer in performative writing is the performance art theorist Peggy Phelan. She describes the form as one which....

:''"enacts the death of the 'we' that we think we are before we begin to write. A statement of allegiance to the radicality of unknowing who we are becoming, this writing pushes against the ideology of knowledge as a progressive movement forever approaching a completed end-point."'' (''Mourning Sex'', 1997)

Such a writing form is claimed to be, in itself, a form of performance. It is said to more accurately reflect the fleeting and ephemeral nature of a performance, and the various mechanisms of memory and [[referential]]ity that happen during and after the performance.