Failure in Excess, Desire in Abundance: The Aesthetic Queering of Black Masculinity and Performative Utopias Open Access
Carr, Troizel (2015)
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Abstract
Black masculinity is plagued with narratives of authenticity, fraught with statements of "Boys don't do that! Don't be a sissy! Be a man!" Alongside these narratives, violent images, caricatures and stereotypes are blasted in different forms of media that construct black masculinity as a villainous subject-position. What happens if we begin to consider a hidden potential within black masculinity outside of these vicious images? How exactly does black queer masculinity relate to a "normative" black masculinity and what does the term "queer" do? Perhaps black masculinity already takes up queer discourse and the "queer" in black queer masculinity functions as a performative, a performative that occasions a glimpse of utopia. Through this project, I hope to uncover the relationship between black masculinity, black queer masculinity, and utopia in performance.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Introduction 1
Chapter Two: Black Masculinity and Its Construction 15
Chapter Three: Black Queer Masculinity and Its Function 29
Chapter Four: Disidentification, Ontological Excess, & Utopian Longing 40
Conclusion 55
Appendix A: Performance Journal: APOSTROPHE TROIZEL 57
Works Cited 77
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