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By Gayatri Gopinath
Published: 16 November 2018
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0216-1
... Akram Zaatari Allan deSouza queer optic queer archives ...
Book Chapter

By Gayatri Gopinath
Published: 16 November 2018
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0216-1
... Allan deSouza Chitra Ganesh Mariam Ghani Saidiya Hartman Akram Zaatari ...
Published: 16 November 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9781478002161-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0216-1
... Ganesh and Mariam Ghani, and the work of Lebanese visual artist Akram Zaatari. In their work, queer diasporic affect becomes the portal through which history, memory, and the process of archiving itself are reworked in order to critique the ongoing legacies of slavery, colonialism, war and occupation...
Published: 16 November 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9781478002161-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0216-1
... The book closes by juxtaposing an image from the work of Allan deSouza with that of Akram Zaatari. Queer visual aesthetic practices memorialize queer modes of desire, affiliation, and embodiment that are deemed without value by conventional methods of retrieving the past. The aesthetic practices...
Published: 16 November 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9781478002161-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0216-1
... The introduction opens with a photograph of what appears (to a contemporary viewer) to be a gender queer figure, taken in a photography studio in south Lebanon in the early 1950s. The image is reproduced and exhibited by the contemporary queer Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari. Just as Zaatari’s act...