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Queer Masculinities and Spaces of Intimacy in the Work of Anwar Saeed

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TLpq2302689418

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Queer Masculinities and Spaces of Intimacy in the Work of Anwar Saeed

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Asif, Noor Alainah

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Khullar, Sonal

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University of Washington

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019

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62

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Master's

Body granting the degree

University of Washington

Text preceding or following the note

2019

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The bodies of same-sex loving men and women have been subject to state-sponsored oppression, censorship, and brutalities since Pakistan's inception. These violences have been increasingly aggravated since the 1980s. This paper examines the work of contemporary Pakistani artist Anwar Saeed. In his paintings, Saeed interrogates conflictual intersections between sexuality, religion, love, violence, and the nation-state through representations of queer male bodies. By way of his references to sexuality and queerness, Saeed forges artistic intimacies between his practice, other Pakistani artists, and local religious and cultural histories. This paper suggests that Saeed's practice, then, works within the parameters of the Pakistani nation-state as a means of working against it. This is to say that Saeed's work has developed through the subversive concept of disidentification, as informed by queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz. Keeping in mind the theory's US based context, this paper seeks to consider disidentifications in the context of Saeed's practice; an analysis of this kind can possibly create an opening for a cross-border analysis of the effects of power on gender, sexuality, and queerness that departs from generalizing, Eurocentric accounts of inequality, patriarchy, and oppression.

Art criticism

Art history

Gender studies

LGBTQ studies

Social structure

South Asian studies

Asif, Noor Alainah

Khullar, Sonal

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[Thesis]

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