Opacity - Minority - Improvisation: An Exploration of the Closet Through Queer Slangs and Postcolonial Theory

Anna T.

Published by transcript Verlag 2020

Opacity - Minority - Improvisation

An Exploration of the Closet Through Queer Slangs and Postcolonial Theory

Anna T.

Volume 27 in the series Queer Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839451335

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About this book

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.

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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.

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Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
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The Chronicles of the Closet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
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Mom’s the Word or Take Sertraline with Me (if you want to) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 230
Keywords: Periphery; Culture; Orality; Queerness; Gender; Language; Gender Studies; Queer Theory; Postcolonialism; Political Art; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: May 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839451335