Christine and the Queens at the BBC: hybridity, relation, tilting

Abstract

This article reads 2016 as a breakthrough year for Christine and the Queens in the United Kingdom, particularly England. Through analyzing a select corpus of interviews and performances, I argue that the artist’s personal breakthroughs occur in a context of changing UK–European relations, and indeed of the ever-changing persona of Christine, who changes constantly and yet stays the same in crucial regards. I read such evolving identities and relations with reference to the thought of the Martinican theorist Édouard Glissant.