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Survival of a perverse nation : morality and queer possibility in Armenia / Tamar R. Shirinian.
Penn Museum Library - New Books Display JQ1759.3.A91 S55 2024
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shirinian, Tamar R., 1985- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--Armenia (Republic).
- Political culture.
- Post-communism--Economic aspects--Armenia (Republic).
- Post-communism.
- Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923--Influence.
- Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.
- Homophobia--Political aspects--Armenia (Republic).
- Homophobia.
- Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Capitalism.
- Queer theory.
- Armenia (Republic)--Politics and government--1991-.
- Armenia (Republic).
- Armenia (Republic)--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 289 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "In Survival of a Perverse Nation, Tamar Shirinian traces two widespread rhetorics of perversion--sexual and moral--in postsocialist Armenia, showing how they are tied to anxieties about the nation's survival. In her fieldwork with Armenians, Shirinian found that right-wing nationalists' focus on sexual perversion centers the figure of the homosexual, while questions of moral perversion surround oligarchs and other members of the political economic elite. While the homosexual is seen as non- or improperly reproductive, the oligarch's moral deviations from the caring and paternalistic expectations associated with national leadership also endanger Armenia's survival. Shirinian shows how both figures threaten the nation's proper social reproduction, a source of great anxiety for a nation whose primary point of identity is surviving genocide. In the existential threat posed by these forms of perversion Shirinian finds paths where non-survival might mean the creation of futures that are queerer and more just. Detailing how the language of perversion offers trenchant critiques of capitalism as a perversion of life, Shirinian presents a new queer theory of political economy"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Survival of a perverse nation
- From national survival to national perversion
- The figure of the homosexual
- The names-of-the-fathers
- Wandering Yerevan
- An improper present
- The politics of "No!"
- Futures without daddy, or on not surviving.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shirinian, Tamar, 1985- Survival of a perverse nation
- ISBN:
- 9781478026877
- 1478026871
- 9781478031116
- 1478031115
- OCLC:
- 1419865319
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