A Badge of Injury : : The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory / / Sébastien Tremblay.

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• VerfasserIn: Tremblay, Sébastien,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Transnational Queer Histories , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XX, 282 p.)

A Badge of Injury is a contribution to both the fields of queer and global history. It analyses gay and lesbian transregional cultural communication networks from the 1970s to the 2000s, focusing on the importance of National Socialism, visual culture, and memory in the queer Atlantic. Provincializing Euro-American queer history, it illustrates how a history of concepts which encompasses the visual offers a greater depth of analysis of the transfer of ideas across regions than texts alone would offer. It also underlines how gay and lesbian history needs to be reframed under a queer lens and understood in a global perspective. Following the journey of the Pink Triangle and its many iterations, A Badge of Injury pinpoints the roles of cultural memory and power in the creation of gay and lesbian transregional narratives of pride or the construction of the historical queer subject. Beyond a success story, the book dives into some of the shortcomings of Euro-American queer history and the power of the negative, writing an emancipatory yet critical story of the era.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of figures -- Introduction – There and back again: A Pink Triangle’s journey -- 1 A badge of continuities – Pink radical politics and identification with the Nazi past -- 2 A badge of narratives – Pink Triangles, written communication networks, and the Queer Atlantic -- 3 A badge of memory – Defining and remembering victimhood in the queer Atlantic -- 4 A badge of inclusion – Carving Pink Triangles into stone and shaping the queer subject -- 5 A badge of exclusion – Pink Triangle frameworks and the limits of collective memory -- 6 A badge of universalization – Pink Triangles and the limits of Euro-American queer suffering -- 7 A badge of survival – AIDS activism, Pink Triangles, and an aesthetic of injury -- 8 A badge of temporalities – European time and asynchronous Pink Triangle modernities -- 9 A badge of visibility – Branding Pink Triangles for emancipation -- Epilogue – The Pink Triangle in homonationalist times -- Bibliography -- Index