Nicole Erin Morse

Selfie Aesthetics

Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art

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Produktbeschreibung

In Selfie Aesthetics Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore transition, selfhood, and relationality. Morse contends that rather than being understood as shallow emblems of a narcissistic age, selfies can produce politically meaningful encounters between creators and viewers. Through close readings of selfies and other digital artworks by trans feminist artists, Morse details a set of formal strategies they call selfie aesthetics: doubling, improvisation, seriality, and nonlinear temporality. Morse traces these strategies in the work of Zackary Drucker, Vivek Shraya, Tourmaline, Alok Vaid-Menon, Zinnia Jones, and Natalie Wynn, showing how these artists present improvisational identities and new modes of performative resistance by conveying the materialities of trans life. Morse shows how the interaction between selfie creators and viewers constructs collective modes of being and belonging in ways that envision trans feminist futures. By demonstrating the aesthetic depth and political potential of selfie creation, distribution, and reception, Morse deepens understandings of gender performativity and trans experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781478015512
• ISBN-10: 1478015519
• Artikelnr.: 62549046

Autorenporträt

Nicole Erin Morse

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue The Monster by the Pool  vii
Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction  1
1. Doubling  23
2. Gender Performatives and Selfie Improvisatives  50
3. Visibility Politics and Selfie Seriality  74
4. Selfie Time(lines)  96
5. Trans Feminist Futures  115
Coda  136
Notes 139
Selected Bibliography  163
Index  175