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

Description

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. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction. Queer and Europe: An Encounter......Page 12 QUEER HISTORIES: IMAGINING OTHER EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTIONS......Page 36 (Same-Sex) Marriage and the Making of Europe: Renaissance Rome Revisited......Page 38 A Case of Mistaken Identity: Female Russian Social Revolutionaries in Early-Twentieth-Century Switzerland......Page 59 Straight Migrants Queering European Man......Page 80 QUEERING EURO-GLOBAL POLITICS......Page 90 Queering European Sexualities Through Italy’s Fascist Past: Colonialism, Homosexuality, and Masculinities......Page 92 Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American “Others”......Page 102 FROM EUROPEAN GRAND NARRATIVES TO QUEER COUNTER-STORIES......Page 126 Sick Man of Transl-Asia: Bruce Lee and Queer Cultural Translation......Page 128 What’s Queer about Remy, Ratatouille, and French Cuisine?......Page 147 Pathos as Queer Sociality in Contemporary European Visual Culture: François Ozon’s Time to Leave......Page 159 Queer/Euro Visions......Page 182 Notes......Page 200 Bibliography......Page 224 List of Contributors......Page 244 B......Page 248 D......Page 249 H......Page 250 M......Page 251 P......Page 252 S......Page 253 Z......Page 254