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... queer anthropology has engaged with stylized modes of self-presentation. It explores the thresholds between queer anthropology and performance studies as openings to consider the debates around performativity as a discursive framework—a repetition of stylized acts that might congeal over time...

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... excess and style, this chapter considers how queer anthropology has engaged with stylized modes of self-presentation. It explores the thresholds between queer anthropology and performance studies as openings to consider the debates around performativity as a discursive framework—a repetition of stylized...

... epistemic privilege, entitlement, and authority. By focusing on practices at the edge of epistemic authority, the chapter claims that work is found in stories, gossip, whisper cultures, and jokes, not in the formal, stylized templates of how to make and circulate new knowledge. Various strategies...

... appropriation portraiture self-representation stylization ...

... Focused on Chen Ruoxi’s 1986 queer Marxist novel, this chapter discusses the historical context for the emergence of a body of self-stylized queer fiction in Chinese. The primary aim of this chapter is to show that Chinese queer fiction did not emerge as a result of a globalizing liberalism...

... speak in stylized registers. Their autobiographies reveal a kind of doubled performativity, by which the self is twice created, both as a stage performer and as a social being. In the case of Jayshankar Sundari, a female impersonator of the highest order, the chapter analyzes the revealing and occlusion...

.... And yet, the crisis of the Tenth Round’s closure provided material for new scandalous stories. Stylized and embellished, these stories were anticipatory lessons in imaging queer social life in the face of the predicaments interlocutors encountered as the “end of AIDS” continued to unfold. The Global...

... and style undermine them. Persepolis marks its physical distance from Iran through animation; Shirin Neshat’s Women without Men (2010) does so through stylization. All are examples of what Hamid Naficy calls “accented cinema.” This chapter considers the role of diasporan women filmmakers in facilitating...

... bourgeois repressions as well as antiblack and misogynist traumas, all revealed in stylized scenes of psychoanalysis—achieves release through “metaphor” and art. Liliane frequently spins neurosis into artful language and constantly sublimates fury, angst, and self-avowed “crazy” into painting...

...: in style sections of internationally circulating newspapers and world-renowned fashion magazines. Chapter 3 examines the highly stylized and standardized conventions of outfit photos, from the customary camera angles to the spatial and temporal aesthetic arrangements of the shot and the blogger’s body...

... on the memoirs of two male actors in the commercial Parsi theater of the early twentieth century, this chapter queries the construction of womanhood, religious identity, and autobiography itself. Planted in vernacular, largely oral, systems of communication and knowledge, these artists speak in stylized...

..., not in the formal, stylized templates of how to make and circulate new knowledge. Various strategies for building and maintaining epistemic privilege show the fragility of that authority, lessons for dismantling it, and guides for building a more robust, resilient set of epistemic practices. epistemic...

.... African photographers appropriation portraiture self-representation stylization This chapter offers a holistic assessment of interpretive approaches to recently rediscovered African studio photography traditions active from the mid-twentieth century onward. It contrasts Francophone research...