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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463789903321

Titolo

Queer visibility in post-socialist cultures / / edited by Nárcisz Fejes and Andrea P. Balogh ; Edwin Fox, cover designer ; Bethan Ball, production manager

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, England ; ; Chicago, Illinois : , : Intellect, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-78320-129-0

1-78320-130-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FejesNárcisz

BaloghAndrea P

FoxEdwin

BallBethan

Disciplina

306.766

Soggetti

Homosexuality

Sexual rights

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Half Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Post-socialist Politics of Queer In/visibility ; PART I: Queer Negotiations of Post-socialist Identities; Chapter 1: Sexual Rights as a Tool for Mapping Europe: Discourses of Human Rights and European Identity in Activists' Struggles in Croatia ; Chapter 2: Now You See It: Gay (In)Visibility and the Performance of Post-Soviet Identity; Chapter 3: Hiding in Plain Sight?: Making Homosexuality (In)Visible in Post-Yugoslav Film; PART II: Queer Politics and Activism

Chapter 4: Taking Off a Cloak of Invisibility: The Clash of Discourses about Sexual Difference in SlovakiaChapter 5: Strategies of Inclusion and Shifting Attitudes towards Visibility in the Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Discourse in the Czech Republic after 1989; Chapter 6: The Politics of Coming Out and Hungarian Nationalism; Chapter 7: Neutralizing Visibility: Bulgarian Strategies for Justifying Inequality; PART III: Configurations of Queer in Post-socialist Film and Media; Chapter 8 :



The Double Bind of Visibility: Mainstreaming Lesbianism in Love Sick

Chapter 9: Straight Eye for the Queer Guy: Gay Male Visibility in Post-Soviet Russian FilmsChapter 10: Global Popular Media and the Local Limits of Queering; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

The growing visibility of lesbian and gay people in the countries of Europe formerly known as the Eastern Bloc over the past two decades has opened up a new controversial field for academic exploration and debate. The authors of this book explore, non-normative sexualities, which were virtually invisible under socialism, appeared in varied forms of public display aft er the fall of the Iron Curtain: on TV shows, magazine stands, and festivals, for example.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149175003321

Autore

KICZA JOHN E; HORN, REBECCA

Titolo

RESILIENT CULTURES;AMERICA'S NATIVE PEOPLES CONFRONT EUROPEAN COLONIALIZATION 1500-1800

Pubbl/distr/stampa

LONDON, : ROUTLEDGE, 2016

ISBN

1-315-50987-3

1-315-50989-X

1-315-50988-1

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

909/.0491411

Soggetti

Indians - Government relations

Government, Resistance to - America

Indians - Cultural assimilation

Latin America Civilization Indian influences

North America Civilization Indian influences

Latin America Colonization

North America Colonization

Europe Colonies America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

The Native Societies of the Americas Before Contact -- The Conquests and Initial Establishment of Colonies in Latin America -- Colonial Spanish America and Its Impact on the Sedentary Imperial Societies -- Spanish and Portuguese Interactions with Semisedentary and Nonsedentary Peoples -- Native Responses to Settlement in the East and Southwest in North America -- The British and the Indians of Eastern North America -- Spanish and Portuguese Interactions with Tribal Peoples -- Enduring Connections between the New World and the Old -- By Way of Conclusion: Enduring Patterns in the Americas.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a comparative perspective of the impact of early European colonization on the native peoples of the Americas. It covers the character of the indigenous cultures before contact, and then addresses the impact ofand creative ways in which they adapted tothe establishment of colonies by the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English. Key topics: Paying attention to environmental change, the book considers such issues as the nature of military conflicts, the cultural and material contributions of each side to the other, the importance of economic exchanges, and the demographic transformation. Market: For individuals interested in the history of colonial America, colonial Latin America, and the American Indian.