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Bibliographic Data

ID12898421
AuthorsLuiz Paulo Moita-Lopes (0000-0002-3829-9824, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, corresponding author), Branca Falabella Fabrício (0000-0003-0006-9924, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Year2018
Volume12
Issue4
Pages459-478
Publication date2018-12-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGender and Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-6321 • E-ISSN: 1747-633X
PublisherEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/genl.34675
OpenAlexW2903806685
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In this paper we investigate an intimate encounter in 'Life in the Closet', a blog fed by a Brazilian undergraduate, N.B., between 2011 and 2014. As a case in point, we focus on how a YouTube video advert called 'The Man Man' is successively entextualised in the blog, by following its re-entextualisation into posts made by the blogger himself and other participants. We explore this digital event as an instance of several chained reperformances, observing the highly reflexive activity that goes on in the blog and how such reflexivity operates through the friction of sedimented and transgressive discourses. By using a performative and scalesensitive approach to textuality and subjectivities, we fathom how participants reflexively queer gender, sexuality, age, race and social class by intersectionally making each one of these 'categories' dissolve its solidified meaning in the light of the Other as these meanings are called into being

Aesthetics · Art · Class (philosophy · Closet · Event (particle physics · Focus (optics · Human sexuality · Journaling file system · Literature · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Performative utterance · Queer · Reflexivity · Sociology · Textuality · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology

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