How to Disappear: Disidentification and biomythography as tools for queering and querying oppressive identity politics
| dc.contributor.advisor | Pather, Jayendran | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maroga, Kopano Tiyana | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-12T09:54:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-02-12T09:54:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2021-02-12T04:34:48Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper I endeavor to chart the trajectory through my Practice as Research process into, and later development of, what eventually became a performance and literary work entitled Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations. The paper details in the first part, Modes of Disidentification, the practices of three black, interdisciplinary artists: Todd Gray, Sethembile Msezane and Athi-Patra Ruga operating at different intersections of black identity and how their practices exemplify different possibilities for disidentification in creative practice. Using the framework of queer cultural theorist José Esteban Muñoz' Disidentifications (1984) as a theoretical base, I endeavor to explore the different techniques that these artists use in response, retaliation and, possibly, congruence to the politics of representation . In order to elucidate and experiment with these techniques I employ a Practice as 1 Research methodology that I unpack in the second half of the paper, Biomythography, critical fabulation and disidentification in Practice. In Biomythography, critical fabulation and disidentification in practice I engage the performance works I created during my masters in Theatre and Performance, namely Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations and icarus descent and illustrate how the theory of disidentification can be performed utilizing the techniques of biomythography (Lorde, 1982) and critical fabulation (Hartman, 2008) that gesture towards a complication of rigid identity theory. Underpinning this research is the desire to explore artistic techniques that complicate rigid, categorical identity theory and practices in the hope that these techniques can serve towards alternatives to and liberation from the social, categorical identity model inherited in Southern Africa through the colonial systems of identity based categorization. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Maroga, K. T. (2020). <i>How to Disappear: Disidentification and biomythography as tools for queering and querying oppressive identity politics</i>. (). ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Drama. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32827 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Maroga, Kopano Tiyana. <i>"How to Disappear: Disidentification and biomythography as tools for queering and querying oppressive identity politics."</i> ., ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Drama, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32827 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Maroga, K.T. 2020. How to Disappear: Disidentification and biomythography as tools for queering and querying oppressive identity politics. . ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Drama. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32827 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Master Thesis AU - Maroga, Kopano Tiyana AB - In this paper I endeavor to chart the trajectory through my Practice as Research process into, and later development of, what eventually became a performance and literary work entitled Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations. The paper details in the first part, Modes of Disidentification, the practices of three black, interdisciplinary artists: Todd Gray, Sethembile Msezane and Athi-Patra Ruga operating at different intersections of black identity and how their practices exemplify different possibilities for disidentification in creative practice. Using the framework of queer cultural theorist José Esteban Muñoz' Disidentifications (1984) as a theoretical base, I endeavor to explore the different techniques that these artists use in response, retaliation and, possibly, congruence to the politics of representation . In order to elucidate and experiment with these techniques I employ a Practice as 1 Research methodology that I unpack in the second half of the paper, Biomythography, critical fabulation and disidentification in Practice. In Biomythography, critical fabulation and disidentification in practice I engage the performance works I created during my masters in Theatre and Performance, namely Jesus Thesis and Other Critical Fabulations and icarus descent and illustrate how the theory of disidentification can be performed utilizing the techniques of biomythography (Lorde, 1982) and critical fabulation (Hartman, 2008) that gesture towards a complication of rigid identity theory. Underpinning this research is the desire to explore artistic techniques that complicate rigid, categorical identity theory and practices in the hope that these techniques can serve towards alternatives to and liberation from the social, categorical identity model inherited in Southern Africa through the colonial systems of identity based categorization. DA - 2020_ DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Theatre and Performance LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2020 T1 - How to Disappear: Disidentification and biomythography as tools for queering and querying oppressive identity politics TI - How to Disappear: Disidentification and biomythography as tools for queering and querying oppressive identity politics UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32827 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32827 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Maroga KT. How to Disappear: Disidentification and biomythography as tools for queering and querying oppressive identity politics. []. ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Drama, 2020 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32827 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Drama | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
| dc.subject | Theatre and Performance | |
| dc.title | How to Disappear: Disidentification and biomythography as tools for queering and querying oppressive identity politics | |
| dc.type | Master Thesis | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | MA |