What Can a Body Do? Answers from Trablus, Cairo, Beirut and Algiers

Marks, Laura U.

doi:10.3366/para.2015.0150

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“…14 However, they are different from the notion of ideology. Images of thought are ideas in Arab societies about homosexuality being abnormal (Marks, 2015), and that sexual subjectivity is confined within the dichotomous framework of West/East (as well as 13 To read more about Meem's involvement in the BDS movement for instance in the campaign in 2011 that called on IGLYO's Member Organizations to respond to the BDS call and boycott Israel, check: http://www.bekhsoos.com/2011/06/call-for-iglyo-member-organizations-vote-no-to-iglyo-in-israel/. Bekhsoos often published articles and poetry in Arabic, and addressed the importance of writing in Arabic and re-inventing it, by either creating or reclaiming words.…”

Section: B the Binary Of West/arab As Image Of Thought In The Paradigm Of Erotic/exoticmentioning

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Becoming-Queer-Arab-Activist: The Case of Meem

Hamdan¹

2015

Kohl J.

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Drawing on the study-case of the Meem queer activist community in Beirut, I analyze the movements of de-territorialization and re-territorialization in the micropolitical flow of their located struggle. I intervene with the Deleuzian notions of becoming nomadic and affirmative politics of difference, the politics of location in the work of Rosi Braidotti, and Audre Lorde’s notion of the erotic to think the becoming-queer-Arab-activist and map the complex processes of non-linear and differential becomings. My purpose is to conceptualize the non-linearity and the movement of the “different difference” of queer Arabness, which blurs the dialectical and identitarian binary of sexuality reproduced by the exotic Gay International and the exclusively discursive frameworks. I use these concepts to map the fluxes and the affirmative affectivities of desire in the Arab queer activism illustrated by Meem’s non-identitarian approach.

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Section: B the Binary Of West/arab As Image Of Thought In The Paradigm Of Erotic/exoticmentioning

confidence: 99%

Becoming-Queer-Arab-Activist: The Case of Meem

Hamdan¹

2015

Kohl J.

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Zama and the Politics of Contamination: from Di Benedetto’s Novel to Martel’s Film

Dueñas¹

2023

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies

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A Body Without a Face: The Disorientation of Trauma inPhoenix(2014) and New Holocaust Cinema

Landry

2017

Film-Philosophy

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This article analyses Christian Petzold's exemplary 2014 film Phoenix, tracking a new development in Holocaust cinema that focuses on phenomenological narratives of embodied experience of trauma. It examines the film through the cinematic representation of the traumatised body. While there is no dearth of scholarly inquiries into the relationship of trauma and the body and how it is mediated through film, these are often more concerned with the way in which the body becomes a projection screen for repressed or collective trauma and less about the lived conditions of individual trauma. The present analysis offers a rethinking of the traumatised body as one beset by the condition of disorientation. As a methodological guide, it turns to Sara Ahmed's pivotal phenomenological study Queer Phenomenology (2006).

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What Can a Body Do? Answers from Trablus, Cairo, Beirut and Algiers

Cited by 3 publications

References 2 publications

Becoming-Queer-Arab-Activist: The Case of Meem

Becoming-Queer-Arab-Activist: The Case of Meem

Zama and the Politics of Contamination: from Di Benedetto’s Novel to Martel’s Film

A Body Without a Face: The Disorientation of Trauma inPhoenix(2014) and New Holocaust Cinema

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