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Opacity – Minority – Improvisation An Exploration of the Closet Through Queer Slangs and Postcolonial Theory Anna T.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- T., Anna <p>Anna T., Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Österreich</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Queer studies ; Volume 27.
- Queer Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performance.
- Periphery.
- Culture.
- Orality.
- Queerness.
- Gender.
- Language.
- Gender Studies.
- Queer Theory.
- Postcolonialism.
- Political Art.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Performance.
- Periphery.
- Culture.
- Orality.
- Queerness.
- Gender.
- Language.
- Gender Studies.
- Queer Theory.
- Postcolonialism.
- Political Art.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Anna T., Opacity – Minority – Improvisation An Exploration of the Closet Through Queer Slangs and Postcolonial Theory
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Anna T. (PhD), born in 1984, has worked as an artist, theorist, and educator in Greece, England, Germany, and Austria. Since 2003 she has exhibited and participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and new media festivals in Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Between 2014 and 2017 she was a board member and curator at Mz* Baltazar's Lab, a feminist hackerspace for creatives in Vienna, and since 2017 she has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Art and Design Linz.
- Summary:
- The expression »to come out of the closet« calls for an analysis of how language and notional as well as social spaces interact and intersect to constitute »queer«. This performative book, a product of artistic research, is an exploration of the proverbial closet through linguistics, queer, and postcolonial theory. It is a project in which opacity, minority, and improvisation happen on the levels of content, analysis, and typography. Eleven queer slangs from around the world become part of an exploration of queerness and knowledge from the Periphery through autoethnography, Édouard Glissant's concept of opacity, José Muñoz's disidentifications, and Gloria Anzaldúa's performative writing. Theory, personal accounts, and art are interwoven to offer an interdisciplinary reading of the slangs as queer methods of survival and resistance.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 9 Introduction 13 The Chronicles of the Closet 31 Opacity 75 Minority 119 Mom's the Word or Take Sertraline with Me (if you want to) 139 Tô passada! 169 Endnotes 181 Bibliography 219
- Notes:
- Doctoral Thesis Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien 2017
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228).
- ISBN:
- 3-8394-5133-7
- OCLC:
- 1158159662
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