Picture Books as Performative Texts: Or How to do Things with Words and Pictures

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  • Kerry Mallan

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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2002vol12no2art1303

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Judith Butler, reader response theory, picture books, performativity, gender performativity

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2002-07-01

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“Picture Books as Performative Texts: Or How to do Things with Words and Pictures” (2002) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 12(2), pp. 26–37. doi:10.21153/pecl2002vol12no2art1303.

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