Queer stories of Europe / edited by Kārlis Vērdin̦š and Jānis Ozolinš.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vērdin̦š, Kārlis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Europe--History--20th century.

Homosexuality.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

vi, 242 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

This is the first volume on the studies of queer identities in Europe to adopt a strong focus on the history of the Baltic region among other countries in Central and East Europe. It unites work by researchers of different European countries that deals with various representations of the queer culture over a period of more than one hundred years. A significant part of the book is dedicated to belletristics, with the contributors offering readings of it with knowledge about ideas circulating in public discourse that have been influential for new discoveries in history, art history, culture studies, communication studies, theology, and narratology, among other fields. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Queer Narratives in Contemporary Literature

Chapter 1 The End of Gay and Lesbian Literature as a Happy End / Martin C. Putna Putna, Martin C. 6

Chapter 2 The Mainstream, the Sidestream and the Irrigation Ditch: British Gay Literature and the Parched Reader / Gregory Woods Woods, Gregory 36

Chapter 3 Fact and Fiction, Insistence and Resistance: Germany's Struggle with Queer Interventions / Dirk Schulz Schulz, Dirk 50

Chapter 4 Articulation beyond Representation, or, What's Queer about Queer Narratives? / Tomasz Sikora Sikora, Tomasz 64

Chapter 5 Death Penalty or 'Death and Transfiguration'?: Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and its Reception in English-Language Literature ('Ganymede' by Daphne du Maurier) / Rolf Füllmann Füllmann, Rolf 81

Chapter 6 Queer Melancholia and the Limits of Identification in Andra Neiburga's Short Story "Man-doll" / Janis Ozolinš Ozolinš, Janis 100

Part II History of Central and East Europe Revisited

Chapter 1 Literary Queer Mésalliances in Riga around 1900 / Liina Lukas Lukas, Liina 110

Chapter 2 The Harden-Eulenburg Affair and the Latvian Image of Germans / Karlis Verdinš Verdinš, Karlis 123

Chapter 3 Import from the West vs. Import from the Past: Queer Movement in the First Half of the 20th Century in Slovak Context / Jana Jablonická-Zezulová Jablonická-Zezulová, Jana 134

Chapter 4 Communication of Non-normative Sexuality in Inter-war Latvia (1920s and 1930s) / Ineta Lipša Lipša, Ineta 144

Chapter 5 Decriminalization of Homosexual Acts in Czechoslovakia in 1961 / Jan Seidl Seidl, Jan 174

Chapter 6 Latvian Queerness Mirrored: Andris Grinbergs vs. Andy Warhol / Laine Kristberga Kristberga, Laine 195

Chapter 7 Ukrainian Queer Culture: The Difficult Birth / Vitaly Chemetsky Chemetsky, Vitaly 206

Chapter 8 The Story about "A Minority in Minority": The Case of Christian Lesbians in Latvia / Ilze Jansone Jansone, Ilze 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1443897906

9781443897907

OCLC:

962816003

Publisher Number:

99969471911