What's Queer about Europe? : : Productive Encounters and Re-enchanting Paradigms / / Sudeep Dasgupta, Mireille Rosello.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Rosello, Mireille,; Dasgupta, Sudeep,
• MitwirkendeR: Bowman, Paul,; Cairns, Lucille,; Dasgupta, Sudeep,; Ferguson, Gary,; Grisard, Dominique,; Guénif, Nacira,; Murat, Laure,; Ponzanesi, Sandra,; Rosello, Mireille,; Stychin, Carl F.,; Wilson, Emma,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Queer and Europe: An Encounter -- Queer Histories: Imagining Other European Constructions -- (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 Euro-Global Politics -- Queering European Sexualities Through Italy’s Fascist Past: Colonialism, Homosexuality, and Masculinities -- Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American “Others” -- From European Grand Narratives to Queer Counter-Stories -- 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