Copi

inventing worlds and a transgender and transnational theater

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i17.47248

Abstract

This article proposes a reading of Argentinian artist, based in Paris, Raul Botana’s work and thought, who signed under the pseudonym Copi. Born in Buenos Aires, in 1939, and deceased in Paris, in 1987, his work includes comic strips, short stories, novellas, novels and plays, besides his work as an actor. The paper focuses on how Copi’s oeuvre consciously builds imagined worlds, critiquing the established notions of nation, country and national language,
and deconstructing all identity stabilizations and crystallizations (of gender and nationality), which results in a production that anticipates queer aesthetics. Hence, it dialogues with the proposals of Pimentel (2011), Deleuze and Guattari (2017), Link (2017), Rosenzvaig (2003), among others.

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Published

2022-08-24

How to Cite

Pimentel, R. (2022). Copi: inventing worlds and a transgender and transnational theater. Revista Periódicus, 2(17), 159–172. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i17.47248