Ameliorative homecomings: framing the queer migrant in A sinner in Mecca (2015) and Who’s gonna love me now? (2016)

Cakirlar, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1171-8635, 2020. Ameliorative homecomings: framing the queer migrant in A sinner in Mecca (2015) and Who’s gonna love me now? (2016). The Garage Journal: Studies in Art, Museums and Culture (01), pp. 245-263. ISSN 2633-4534

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Abstract

This study critically analyzes representations of the queer migrant subject in two documentaries, A Sinner in Mecca (2015) and Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? (2016). Both films construct a drama of conflicting intersections between religion, national belonging, and sexual identity, which is resolved through a normative pull towards home and its affective restructuring of intimacy in the context of queer migrant subjectivity. The ameliorative status of homecoming operates as a default resolution in these films. A longing for home is that which both films register as the queer migrant’s constitutive attachment. These documentaries’ (re)domestication of the queer subject seems to promote a neoliberal identity politics of sexual humanitarianism, in which collective struggles are occluded by individual, heroic testimonials of homecoming.

Item Type:	Journal article
Description:	01 issue title: Transitory parerga: access and inclusion in contemporary art, edited by Vlad Strukov.
Publication Title:	The Garage Journal: Studies in Art, Museums and Culture
Creators:	Cakirlar, C.
Publisher:	Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
Date:	30 November 2020
Number:	01
ISSN:	2633-4534
Identifiers:	Number Type 1332894 Other 10.35074/GJ.2020.1.1.015 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Arts and Humanities
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	16 Jun 2020 19:23
Last Modified:	31 May 2021 15:11
Related URLs:	Publisher
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/40008

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