What's Queer about Europe?: Productive Encounters and Re-enchanting Paradigms

Mireille Rosello; Sudeep Dasgupta

Published by Fordham University Press 2014

What's Queer about Europe?

Productive Encounters and Re-enchanting Paradigms

Mireille Rosello and Sudeep Dasgupta

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823255382

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What’s Queer about Europe focuses on those queer types of artistic, political or theoretical exchanges that take place in the presence of the idea of Europe. This book is not about queer communities in Europe but about how Queer Theory helps us initiate counter-intuitive encounters for imagining Europe.

Author / Editor information

Rosello Mireille :

Mireille Rosello teaches at the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis). She focuses on globalized mobility and on queer thinking. Recent publications include a coedited collection of articles on multilingualism in Europe (Multilingual Europe, Multilingual Europeans, 2012, with Laszlo Maracz), and monographs such as The Reparative in Narratives: Works of Mourning in Progress (2010), France and the Maghreb: Performative Encounters (2005), and Postcolonial Hospitality (2002). She is currently working on a collection of essays on queer Europe (What Is Queer about Europe: Excentric Readings in History, Politics and Culture, coedited with Sudeep Dasgupta, forthcoming from Fordham University Press).Dasgupta Sudeep :

Sudeep Dasgupta is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is affiliated with the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA), the Amsterdam Centre for Globalization Studies (ACGS). His publications include the edited volume Constellations of the Transnational: Modernity, Culture, Critique (2007), articles in Parallax, South Asian Studies, (In)Visible Culture, Transformations, Borderlands, and articles in anthologies on aesthetics and visual culture, critical theory, film studies, media studies, postcolonial and queer theory.

Reviews

—Johan Fornäs:
This book stages multiple encounters between Europe and Queer as two paradigms of transgression – an unusual constellation that results in an imaginative set of investigations of different identity intersections, moving freely across time and space, and between cultural and political contexts in a wide range of genres and media. The essays deal with fascinating historical and contemporary phenomena and are written in a mode of communicative critique that opens up inner contradictions through unexpected dialogues. The result is an invitation to queer Europe transnationally, empowering but without utopian illusions, and far beyond the ordinary discourses in these two fascinating fields.

—Adrian Rifkin:
In their stating that 'Queer and Europe defamiliarize each other…' in their introduction to What's Queer About Europe, Dasgupta and Rosello open up a wonderfully inventive field of uncanny mismatches between subject and method. They unleash the creative justaposition of different cultural and political materials that range from the Roman travels of Montaigne to the Eurovsion Song Contest, from the critique of colonialism to the critical, queer subject in contemporary French cinema, or the strangely contradictory needs for the normative and the queer in the legal regulation of migration. This is truly a feast of trans-disciplinary defamiliarizing, at once learned and witty, challenging and profoundly necessary if queer studies or area studies are to take on a new vivacity that embodies the commonality and dissensus of out times.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Queer and Europe: An Encounter Sudeep Dasgupta and Mireille Rosello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Queer Histories: Imagining Other European Constructions
(Same-Sex) Marriage and the Making of Europe: Renaissance Rome Revisited Gary Ferguson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
A Case of Mistaken Identity: Female Russian Social Revolutionaries in Early-Twentieth-Century Switzerland Dominique Grisard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Straight Migrants Queering European Man Nacira Guénif Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Queering Euro-Global Politics
Queering European Sexualities Through Italy’s Fascist Past: Colonialism, Homosexuality, and Masculinities Sandra Ponzanesi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American “Others” Lucille Cairns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
From European Grand Narratives to Queer Counter-Stories
Sick Man of Transl-Asia: Bruce Lee and Queer Cultural Translation Paul Bowman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
What’s Queer about Remy, Ratatouille, and French Cuisine? Laure Murat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Pathos as Queer Sociality in Contemporary European Visual Culture: François Ozon’s Time to Leave Emma Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Queer/Euro Visions Carl F. Stychin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Queer theory; gender; European identity; Italian cinema; French cinema; Postcolonialism; Popular culture; National identity

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Published: February 3, 2014
ISBN: 9780823255382