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George Mason University, United States
Title:BurkaBondage—A Utopian Queer Performance
The political discourse around the hijab in Germany can be viewed as culturally confining or as a social threat to the woman herself or as a vehicle with subversive or transformative potential. This paper discussed the performance of “BurkaBondage.” It is an illustration of a utopia of two women encountering another culture through the medium, the burka a symbolic representation of a binding of two cultures in which ethnic differences reside and represents the shared experience of two women from two different continents. The female body, show as a double-bound force that is simultaneously frei und gefesselt (free and chained), is not just a repository of mere surface inscription; rather, through the performance, the body is utilized to navigate gendered cultural and religious norms which suggest the desire for recognition. The repetition of bodily acts in the performance of the “BurkaBondage,” maintaining this double edge of being frei und gefesselt (free and chained) opens up the space for the cultural discursive concern with otherness that exceeds the possibility of differences and marks the body, its materiality, as a force standing outside of and as a challenge to the normative discourse of a national body.
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