Baker, Dallas John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5155-7816
(2017)
Ghosts of Leigh: scripting the monstrous effeminate.
New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 14 (3).
pp. 327-347.
ISSN 1479-0726
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Abstract
This article describes how a practice-led research methodology used to produce a creative writing artefact, a short play aimed at a high school audience, had a transformative impact on a number of levels: on the artefact, on the writing practice itself and on the author’s own self-knowledge in terms of gender identity and subjectivity. The creative writing artefact in question is a short stage play entitled Ghosts of Leigh, an exploration of the gender-bending club culture of the 1980s. The play is set in regional Queensland, Australia, which, at that time, was a strongly homosocial and homophobic environment. The script and this article explore the notion of effeminacy as a monstrous masculinity of considerable discursive potency that simultaneously disrupts both masculinity and femininity. The article also discusses how the practice-led research methodology itself facilitated the development of fresh understandings around effeminacy and how these new understandings interacted with the author’s lived gender and embodied subjectivity.
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Item Type: | Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Item Status: | Live Archive |
Additional Information: | Submitted version made accessible in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts - School of Arts and Communication (1 Jul 2013 - 28 Feb 2019) |
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts - School of Arts and Communication (1 Jul 2013 - 28 Feb 2019) |
Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2017 04:30 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jan 2021 01:20 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | effeminacy, monstrosity, Leigh Bowery, self-making, creative writing |
Fields of Research (2008): | 19 Studies in Creative Arts and Writing > 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing > 190402 Creative Writing (incl. Playwriting) 20 Language, Communication and Culture > 2005 Literary Studies > 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objectives (2008): | E Expanding Knowledge > 97 Expanding Knowledge > 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing C Society > 95 Cultural Understanding > 9501 Arts and Leisure > 950104 The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) |
Identification Number or DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2017.1317275 |
URI: | http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/32004 |
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