Other Russias : homosexuality and the crisis of post-Soviet identity / Brian James Baer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baer, Brian James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Russia (Federation).

Homosexuality.

Gay people.

Social conditions.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Homosexuality and literature.

Russia (Federation).

Homosexuality--Social aspects--Russia (Federation).

Homosexuality--Social aspects.

Homosexuality and literature--Russia (Federation).

Gay people--Russia (Federation)--Identity.

Gay people--Russia (Federation)--Social conditions.

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

x, 215 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

This unprecedented book examines the explosion of homosexual discourse in post-Soviet Russia from the turbulent years of the immediate post-communist era through the more troubling recent developments of Vladimir Putin's regime. Focusing on concepts of sexuality, gender, and national identity within competing portrayals of same-sex desire, Brian James Baer explores a variety of popular media, including fiction, film, television, music, and print to detail how homosexuality in today's Russia has come to signify a surprising and often contradictory array of uniquely post-Soviet concerns.

Contents:

1 Russian Gays/Western Gaze: Mapping the (Homo)Sexual Landscape of Post-Soviet Russia 19

2 Making a Spectacle of Homosexuality: The Problem of Gay (In)Visibility 43

3 The Other Within Us: Homosexual Panic and the Post-Soviet Detektiv 71

4 Resurrecting the Spiritual Homosexual: Homosexuality and Russian Cultural Citizenship 91

5 Perversion, Inversion, and Literary Forebears: Homosexuality and the Search for a Post-Soviet Aesthetics 121.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-202) and index.

ISBN:

9780230612242

0230612245

OCLC:

226357139