Queering German culture / edited by Leanne Dawson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dawson, Leanne, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh German yearbook ; v. 10.

Edinburgh German yearbook ; volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities--Germany--Social conditions.

Sexual minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018.

Summary:

From gay and lesbian political activism during the 1960s and 70s through the 1980s queer movement inspired by the AIDS crisis to the recent push towards normalization for same-sex couples via registered partnerships and adoption rights, LGBT issues have been moving steadily into the political and cultural mainstream of the German-speaking lands. A host of German LGBT culture has emerged in recent years, including films and literary works. Queerness has also taken hold within the academy of the German-speaking lands. The present volume includes contributions exploring the representation and reality of LGBT individuals and issues in historical and contemporary German-speaking culture. Leanne Dawson is Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I. Queer Histories and Archives

From Brooklyn to Berlin: Queer Temporality, In/Visibility, and the Politics of Lesbian Archives

"Die zarte Haut einer schönen Frau": Fashioning Femininities in Weimar Germany's Lesbian Periodicals

Based on a True Story: Tracking What Is Queer about Queer German Documentary

Part II. Queering the Other

The Culture of Faces: Reading Physiognomical Relations in Thomas Mann's Der Tod in Venedig

Seeing the Human in the (Queer) Migrant in Jenny Erpenbeck's Gehen, Ging, Gegangen and Terézia Mora's Alle Tage

The Transgressive Representations of Gender and Queerness in Fatih Akin's Auf der anderen Seite

Part III. Queering Normativity

Bitter Tears and Pretty Excess in Fassbinder's Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant and Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss

Mothers, Masculinities, and Queer Potentials: Jonathan Franzen's Rereading of Thomas Brussig and Phillip Roth

Notes on the Contributors

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Aug 2018).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-78744-102-4