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Symptoms of modernity [[electronic resource] ] : Jews and queers in late-twentieth-century Vienna / / Matti Bunzl



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Autore: Bunzl Matti <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Symptoms of modernity [[electronic resource] ] : Jews and queers in late-twentieth-century Vienna / / Matti Bunzl Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
Disciplina: 305.892/4043613/09049
Soggetto topico: Jews - Austria - Vienna - Social conditions - 20th century
Gay people - Austria - Vienna - Social conditions - 20th century
Nationalism - Social aspects - Austria
Soggetto geografico: Vienna (Austria) Ethnic relations
Vienna (Austria) Social life and customs 20th century
Austria History 1955-
Austria Social policy
Soggetto non controllato: 1990s
austria
central europe
cultural history
emancipation
ethnic issues
european history
geopolitical change
historians
historiography
history of sexuality
holocaust
jewish experience
judaism
late 20th century
lgbtq
marginalization
modern history
modernity
nation building
persecution
political history
postmodern analysis
public sphere
queer history
retrospective
sexual politics
vienna
viennese homosexuals
viennese jews
world war ii
wwii
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Symptoms of Modernity -- Part One: Subordination -- Part Two: Resistance -- Part Three. Reproduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In the 1990's, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. Symptoms of Modernity traces this development in the context of Central European history. Jews and homosexuals are signposts of an exclusionary process of nation-building. Cast in their modern roles in the late nineteenth century, they functioned as Others, allowing a national community to imagine itself as a site of ethnic and sexual purity. In Matti Bunzl's incisive historical and cultural analysis, the Holocaust appears as the catastrophic culmination of this violent project, an attempt to eradicate modernity's abject by-products from the body politic. As Symptoms of Modernity shows, though World War II brought an end to the genocidal persecution, the nation's exclusionary logic persisted, accounting for the ongoing marginalization of Jews and homosexuals. Not until the 1970's did individual Jews and queers begin to challenge the hegemonic subordination-a resistance that, by the 1990's, was joined by the state's attempts to ensure and affirm the continued presence of Jews and queers. Symptoms of Modernity gives an account of this radical cultural reversal, linking it to geopolitical transformations and to the supersession of the European nation-state by a postmodern polity.
Titolo autorizzato: Symptoms of modernity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-38558-1
0-520-93720-1
9786611385583
1-59734-928-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780448503321
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