Performing Narrative across Media

This monographic issue aims to privilege a broad interdisciplinary framework, that is the relations between narrative and media at large, through the critical lens of performance and performativity. The articles here selected investigate both larger-scale performative issues (such as relationality, identity, agency, heritage) and specific medial configurations (such as multi-dimensionality, interactivity, the biography/fiction nexus, participation vs. alienation, digital intermediality and obsolescence) related to narrative as enhanced and/or performed today in the Anglophone world across a wide range of cross-fertilising arts, forms, media and disciplines. The contributions are arranged into three sections according to three possible (and somehow overlapping) ‘travel agendas’ of reading which highlight the respective prominent conceptual frameworks: the first mainly focuses on multimodality, hybridisation and adaptation, the second interrogates situated bodies and medial dispersal, and the third engages visuality, cultural memory and loss. Even though most contributions offer case-studies from the 21st century, a couple of them deal with less recent artworks (from the memorable decade between 1970 and 1980), thus providing some useful insights into the complex development of the present trends.