Description
Book SynopsisConsiders the complications of race, religion, sexuality, and gender in Europeanizing from below
Trade Review "European Others is a ground-breaking study, a theoretical adventure, and a major contribution to the literature on European racisms, queer diaspora, immigration, queer subcultures, and queer of color critique. No other scholar, to put it plainly, has worked on these materials in this way; no other scholar has managed to launch the critique of European nationalisms from the vantage point of queer of color subcultural groups; and no other scholar has been able to weave together the strands of sexuality, gender, race, and resistance in such a daring and compelling way." —Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure
"Fatima El-Tayeb’s bold and graceful new book is an electrifying piece of original scholarship on contemporary ‘vernacular’ cultures of community-building in Europe. The world’s leading expert on minoritarian countercultures of art and activism in western Europe today, El-Tayeb sets entirely new standards for intersectional theories of race and sexuality in an age of accelerated transformation. Greater even than the sum of its very incisive parts, El-Tayeb’s European Others focuses on the lived experience of marginalized social groups to craft a new critical idiom for conceptualizing Europe, globalization, diaspora, and marginalization itself." —Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell University
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Theorizing Urban Minority Communities in Postnational Europe
1. “Stranger in My Own Country”: European Identities, Migration, and Diasporic Soundscapes
2. Dimensions of Diaspora: Women of Color Feminism, Black Europe, and Queer Memory Discourses
3. Secular Submissions: Muslim Europeans, Female Bodies, and Performative Politics
4. “Because It Is Our Stepfatherland”: Queering European Public Spaces
Conclusion: “An Infinite and Undefinable Movement”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
