What's queer about Europe? : productive encounters and re-enchanting paradigms / edited by Mireille Rosello and Sudeep Dasgupta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosello, Mireille.

Dasgupta, Sudeep.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory--Europe.

Queer theory.

Europe--Civilization.

Europe.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

vii, 243 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2013]

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.

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

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 Guénif

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: François Ozon's Time to Leave

Emma Wilson

Queer/Euro Visions

Carl Stychin

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823255351

0823255352

9780823255368

0823255360

OCLC:

843955746