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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786520403321

Autore

Rosello Mireille

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-5536-0

0-8232-5538-7

0-8232-6158-1

0-8232-5539-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (171 p.)

Classificazione

LIT004160LIT004130

Disciplina

306.7601094

Soggetti

Queer theory - Europe

Europe Civilization

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Queer and Europe: An Encounter -- (Same-Sex) Marriage and the Making of Europe: Renaissance Rome Revisited -- A Case of Mistaken Identity: Female Russian Social Revolutionaries in Early-Twentieth-Century Switzerland -- Straight Migrants Queering European Man -- Queering European Sexualities Through Italy’s Fascist Past: Colonialism, Homosexuality, and Masculinities -- Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American “Others” -- Sick Man of Transl-Asia: Bruce Lee and Queer Cultural Translation -- What’s Queer about Remy, Ratatouille, and French Cuisine? -- Pathos as Queer Sociality in Contemporary European Visual Culture: François Ozon’s Time to Leave -- Queer/Euro Visions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.