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Transing Contemporary Art: Aïcha Snoussi and Khaled Jarrar

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Over the past decades, trans has been mobilized to emphasize the unsettling borders and boundaries in that which is across or beyond. Akin to the instability and multi-directionality of queer, trans in this sense provides a method of reading for non-normative subtleties and a resistance to categorizations fixed within hegemonic matrices of domination. In this chapter, we take up the framework of trans for its potential in reading works from Aïcha Snoussi and Khaled Jarrar that we suggest benefit from an approach that unsettles the fixed and the singular. We do not consider these works within the context of the artists' gender identities but investigate transing as a method of critical inquiry into the works' substance. This chapter takes as a starting point the myriad of suffixes, including and beyond - gender, that could be attached to the prefix trans- to think expansively about how trans- can be queer.

Keywords: decolonization ; diaspora ; gender and sexuality ; Hybridity ; Liminality ; masculinity ; militarism ; Multiplicity ; Palestine ; queer ; race ; Trans methodologies ; Tunisia

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Transing Contemporary Art: Aïcha Snoussi and Khaled Jarrar
Intellect , 55 (2024); https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1386/9781835950265_6
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