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Against the tyranny of the fact: Autofabulation as a queer strategy of resistance

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dc.creatorLoiseau, Benoît
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-12T09:33:16Z
dc.date.available2022-07-12T09:33:16Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractQueerness has always had a particularly vexed relationship to evidence. Because the latter has historically served to discipline the former, José Esteban Muñoz suggests that anecdotes can become queer acts of resistance against the ‘potential tyranny of the fact’. Drawing on this argument, this article examines the ways in which American artist, filmmaker, and AIDS activist Gregg Bordowitz uses autofabulation to destabilise evidential discourses in his performance practice. Specifically, it looks at ‘Some Styles of Masculinity’ (2017-ongoing), a series of anecdotal monologues in which Bordowitz reflects on the formation of his identity as a queer Jewish man living with HIV.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18839
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/against-the-tyranny-of-the-fact-autofabulation-as-a-queer-strategy-of-resistance/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/19989
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNECS
dc.publisher.place
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectfabulationen
dc.subjectAIDS activismen
dc.subjectlecture performanceen
dc.subjectqueer politicsen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleAgainst the tyranny of the fact: Autofabulation as a queer strategy of resistanceen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-07-12T12:22:18
local.source.epage127
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitle#Rumors
local.source.spage111
local.source.volume11

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