Framing failure and self-representational possibilities in Maia Kobabe’s gender queer
a memoir
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https://doi.org/10.5380/rvx.v20i02.100517Palavras-chave:
Gender queer, Failure, Alternative comics, Queer self-representationResumo
Published in 2019, Maia Kobabe’s autobiographical comics Gender queer engender the question of the kinds of self-representation considered possible in the social imaginary. This work focuses on how the tensions specific to comics as a medium afford both possibilities and limitations to self-representation that rejects the gender binary and the pressure of conformity. In dialogue with Jack Halberstam’s proposal in The queer art of failure (2011), the present reading of Kobabe’s memoir provides contours for thinking through the failure in resolving tensions of genre and gender as a deliberate rejection of hegemonic social reality, through two central points: the negotiation of gender presentation in the self-portrait, and individual/collective fantasy as a technology of gender-sexuality discontinuity.
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