Landscapes of Locura: The Creative Possibilities of Queer Afro-Dominican Gender Performance in Digital Media
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- "Landscapes of Locura: The Creative Possibilities of Queer Afro-Dominican Gender Performance in Digital Media" dives into the intricacies of queer Afro-Dominican gender performance and its effects on black insurgency in the Dominican Republic through digital performance and creative world-building practices. Here, “queer Afro-Dominican” refers to black and afro-descendent Dominicans who actively queer notions of race, gender, and sexuality through radical performance and embodiments of the fluid identities they hold. With research grounded with a focus on the materiality of queer Afro-Dominicanidad through an analysis of gender performance from three feminine Afro-Dominican musical artists: Tokischa, Gailen La Moyeta, and La Pajarita La Paul, this paper explores themes relating to queer Afro-Dominican liberatory tactics rooted in performance. These three artists and their performance of gendered lyric, imagery, and aesthetics provide a case study for the ways in which embodied identities, desire and intimacy, and performance as autonomy act as entry points into discussions of queer Afro-Dominicanidad and the liberatory possibilities of queer black subjectivities in the Dominican Republic. This is a trek into the uncharted waters of non-normative femininities, imaginative decolonial work, and the demonic grounds where queer Afro-Dominican create spaces of temporal freedoms. Additionally, there is reflection on Landscapes of Locura, an installation that acts as a framework of observing, understanding, and assessing these queer Afro-Dominican performances of gender, is discussed. This use of installation art taps into the world-making practices of queer Afro-Dominicans by creating a physical landscape informed by such practices of freedom, and thus allows for another mode of analysis of queer Afro-Dominicanidad and its performances of gender.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date modified | December 5, 2022 |
| Publication date | June 9, 2022; May 27, 2022 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Toribio Hernandez, Ashley |
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Subjects
| Subject | Dominican Republic |
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| Subject | Afro-Caribbean |
| Subject | Feminism |
| Subject | Queer theory |
| Subject | Gender identity |
| Subject | African diaspora in art |
| Subject | Black people |
| Subject | Caribbean Area |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC).
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- Toribio Hernandez, A. (2023). Landscapes of Locura: The Creative Possibilities of Queer Afro-Dominican Gender Performance in Digital Media. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/zb054sw0201
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Undergraduate Honors Theses in African and African American Studies, Stanford University
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