What's queer about Europe? : productive encounters and re-enchanting paradigms

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What's queer about Europe? : productive encounters and re-enchanting paradigms

edited by Mireille Rosello and Sudeep Dasgupta

Fordham University Press, c2014

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Summary: "What's Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration of both. Its contributors study Europe relationally, asking not so much what Europe is but what we do when we attempt to define it. The topics discussed include: gay marriage in Renaissance Rome, Russian anarchism and gender politics in early-twentieth-century Switzerland, colonialism and sexuality in Italy, queer masculinities in European popular culture, queer national identities in French cinema, and gender theories and activism. What these apparently disparate topics have in common is the urgency of the political, legal, and cultural issues they tackle. Asking what is queer about Europe means probing the blind spots that continue to structure the long and discrepant process of Europeanization"-- Provided by publisher

Summary: "What's Queer about Europe focuses on those queer types of artistic, political or theoretical exchanges that take place in the presence of the idea of Europe. This book is not about queer communities in Europe but about how Queer Theory helps us initiate counter-intuitive encounters for imagining Europe"-- Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. 213-231

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What's Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration of both. Its contributors study Europe relationally, asking not so much what Europe is but what we do when we attempt to define it. The topics discussed include: gay marriage in Renaissance Rome, Russian anarchism and gender politics in early-twentieth-century Switzerland, colonialism and sexuality in Italy, queer masculinities in European popular culture, queer national identities in French cinema, and gender theories and activism. What these apparently disparate topics have in common is the urgency of the political, legal, and cultural issues they tackle. Asking what is queer about Europe means probing the blind spots that continue to structure the long and discrepant process of Europeanization.

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Introduction: Queer and Europe: An Encounter Sudeep Dasgupta and Mireille Rosello Queer Histories: Imagining Other European Constructions (Same-Sex) Marriage and the Making of Europe: Renaissance Rome Revisited Gary Ferguson A Case of Mistaken Identity: Female Russian Social-Revolutionaries in Early-Twentieth-Century Switzerland Dominique Grisard Straight Migrants Queering European Man Nacira Guenif Queering Euro-Global Politics Queering European Sexualities Through Italy's Fascist Past: Colonialism, Homosexuality, and Masculinities Sandra Ponzanesi Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American "Others" Lucille Cairns From European Grand Narratives to Queer Counter-Stories Sick Man of Transl-Asia: Bruce Lee and Queer Cultural Translation Paul Bowman What's Queer about Remy, Ratatouille, and French Cuisine? Laure Murat Pathos as Queer Sociality in Contemporary European Visual Culture: Francois Ozon's Time to Leave Emma Wilson Queer/Euro Visions Carl Stychin Notes Bibliography Index

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