CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Bujan, Ivan |
|---|---|
| Title | Reparative Possibilities: Queer Relationality as Queer Futurity |
| Summary | This thesis examines the opportunity to claim queer relationality, based on the correspondence with Eve Sedgwick’s concepts of paranoid and reparative practices in queer and cultural politics. In other words, I will explore how negotiating with paranoid heteronormative narratives was developing in the field of queer politics from the inception of this field in the 1980s. In this regard, I will present queer subjects’ social positions as effects of shaming or misrecognized interpellative performatives, with which queer subjects (counter)identify or disidentify. As well, though affects, such as shame, I will illuminate the possibility of repairing and queering of paranoid heteronormative practices and knowledge production. In this regard, in contrast to Elizabeth Freeman’s chrononormative linearity of time, queer chronotemporality will provide the possibility of creating queer narratives, and Muñoz’s mode of disidentification sphere of counterpublics. Finally, I will observe how reparative possibilities and queer performativity correspond with embodied queer agencies in performances of artists Keith Boadwee, who queers the Cartesian subject and Ron Athey, who through his masochism expression, queers Christian iconography. |
| Supervisor | Timár, Eszter |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/bujan_ivan.pdf |
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