My Beautiful Laundrette exemplifies transgressive identity politics through its contradictions

Evidence

Theodor Adorno also takes up these concerns in Aesthetic Theory. Adorno claims that art is a social act, yet one produced by the tension between the formal autonomy of the work, on the one hand, and its rootedness within society, on the other. The tensions within works of art are expressive of conflicts within the larger sociohistorical processes from which they emerge. He says, “The unsolved antagonisms of reality return in artworks as immanent problems of form.” For Adorno, art operates through its own internal tensions to expose hidden contradictions within society as a whole. Art thus creates its own truth through a dialectic between content and form. Following Adorno, Edward Said argues that narrative is always a social act and that it is the interplay between power and resistance that makes texts possible. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 19 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Identity is a contradictory, multi-discursive, non-closed totality; Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience.; Politics is the transgression of taboos rather than the forward movement of reason — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 33 (+3 more)

Related

• Art works expose social contradictions through their internal formal tensions (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Identity is a contradictory, multi-discursive, non-closed totality #corroborates (0.92)
• Art works expose social contradictions through their internal formal tensions #expands (0.85) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 19
• Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience. #complicates (0.78)
• Identity is both a source of agency and increasingly constructed rather than given #expands (0.75)
• Politics is the transgression of taboos rather than the forward movement of reason #corroborates (0.72) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 33