Kassir, Abed Al Wahab (2023). Divas of the Night: Queer Activism in Lebanese Performing Arts. (Dissertation, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Anthropology and Communication)
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)This research addresses queer activism through contemporary performing arts in Lebanon. I follow the definition of Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt of queer art as art that invites troubles (Schoonover and Galt, 2016). I trace the troubles or the “queer mess” that the artists create subvert the social norms and the heteronormative power, while opening spaces for queer transformational work to begin. Queer here is used more as a political tactic and less as an identity politics.
Through the methods of multimodal analysis, and inspired by theories from queer, masculinities, performing arts, and post-colonial studies, and black feminists and queers of color critiques, I study three different forms of performing arts; Instagram illustration accounts, drag queen shows, and queer movies. The central question of this study is: how does queer performing arts act as a site of subversion for hetero-normative power?
I argue that the artistic productions project an anti-assimilation and anti-respectability politics that subverts the pillars of normative patriarchal power, mainly sectarianism, hegemonic masculinity, the binary understanding of gender, family relations, and public morals.
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Thesis (Dissertation) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institut für Studien zum Nahen Osten und zu muslimischen Gesellschaften |
UniBE Contributor: |
Kassir, Abed Al Wahab |
Subjects: |
200 Religion > 290 Other religions 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 700 Arts |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Serena Tolino |
Date Deposited: |
08 Apr 2024 12:15 |
Last Modified: |
08 Apr 2024 12:15 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
artivism, Lebanon, performing arts, LGBTQI rights, instagram, social media, movies, drag |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/195152 |
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