”...normens människa kommer inte att göra det här åt oss. Någonsin.” En queerteoretisk kvalitativ studie i frigruppers berättelser om gestaltningsstrategier mot stereotypiseringar på friteaterscenerna i Sverige
(2025) GNVK22 20251Department of Gender Studies
- Abstract (Swedish)
- This bachelor's thesis examines how narratives about queer and/or norm-critical performance strategies can counteract the reproduction of stage stereotypes and preconceived normative role interpretations on the independent theatre stages in Sweden. Based on three dyadic interviews with three different independent theatre groups in Sweden, I have analyzed narratives about queer and norm-critical performance strategies based on queer theory and queer performance theory. Through my analysis, I have been able to show how the theatre groups' subversive resistance strategies try to shake and challenge the heterosexual matrix as a clear power structure in the theatre industry. By looking for utopias, deconstruction of stereotypes around gender,... (More)
- This bachelor's thesis examines how narratives about queer and/or norm-critical performance strategies can counteract the reproduction of stage stereotypes and preconceived normative role interpretations on the independent theatre stages in Sweden. Based on three dyadic interviews with three different independent theatre groups in Sweden, I have analyzed narratives about queer and norm-critical performance strategies based on queer theory and queer performance theory. Through my analysis, I have been able to show how the theatre groups' subversive resistance strategies try to shake and challenge the heterosexual matrix as a clear power structure in the theatre industry. By looking for utopias, deconstruction of stereotypes around gender, sex and desire in safer environments of queerness and spaces free from male-heteronormative gazes, new symbols of representation can take shape on the stages. The subversive potential, according to the participant, lies in the spectators' opportunity for change. Through new representations of performance, processes of subversive effects can be created in the form of further conversations and discussions and can thus find their way beyond the theatre stages. (Less)
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- author
- Persson, Anna LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- GNVK22 20251
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Performance strategies, theatre, queer theory, representation/stereotype
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9208455
- date added to LUP
- 2025-07-08 08:07:03
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- 2025-07-08 08:07:03
@misc{9208455, abstract = {{This bachelor's thesis examines how narratives about queer and/or norm-critical performance strategies can counteract the reproduction of stage stereotypes and preconceived normative role interpretations on the independent theatre stages in Sweden. Based on three dyadic interviews with three different independent theatre groups in Sweden, I have analyzed narratives about queer and norm-critical performance strategies based on queer theory and queer performance theory. Through my analysis, I have been able to show how the theatre groups' subversive resistance strategies try to shake and challenge the heterosexual matrix as a clear power structure in the theatre industry. By looking for utopias, deconstruction of stereotypes around gender, sex and desire in safer environments of queerness and spaces free from male-heteronormative gazes, new symbols of representation can take shape on the stages. The subversive potential, according to the participant, lies in the spectators' opportunity for change. Through new representations of performance, processes of subversive effects can be created in the form of further conversations and discussions and can thus find their way beyond the theatre stages.}}, author = {{Persson, Anna}}, language = {{swe}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{”...normens människa kommer inte att göra det här åt oss. Någonsin.” En queerteoretisk kvalitativ studie i frigruppers berättelser om gestaltningsstrategier mot stereotypiseringar på friteaterscenerna i Sverige}}, year = {{2025}}, }