Arte Effymero. The Apocalypse as a Principle of Creation in the Comic Strip by Transgender Artist Effy Beth
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https://doi.org/10.1344/Lectora2020.26.7Keywords:
Effy Beth, comic strip, queer narratives, apocalypse, ArgentinaAbstract
In 2012, the transgender Israeli-Argentinian performance artist Effy Beth wrote in the front page of her only comic strip, TRANSita rápido – TRANSita lento, the rhetorical question: "2012! Qué no es ahora el fin del mundo?" According to the New Age interpretation of the Mayan calendar, 2012 was supposed to mark the end of the world. Associated with a non-fiction narrative that focuses on the everyday challenges queer people suffer from in this society, the question can however be understood as more than a circumstantial reference. In her comic-strip, Effy Beth narrates her transgender identity as an apocalyptic one. She makes transgression into a principle of creation and goes on developing a poetics and a politics of the ephemeral, as she had done in her previous works.
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