{"product_id":"whats-queer-about-europe-9780823255351","title":"Whats Queer about Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- -Adrian Rifkin University of London \"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.\" -- -Johan Fornas Professor of Media and Communication Studies, Sodertorn University, Sweden, author of Signifying Europe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Queer and Europe: An Encounter      Sudeep Dasgupta and Mireille Rosello        Queer Histories: Imagining Other European Constructions      (Same-Sex) Marriage and the Making of Europe: Renaissance Rome Revisited      Gary Ferguson       A Case of Mistaken Identity: Female Russian Social-Revolutionaries in Early-Twentieth-Century Switzerland      Dominique Grisard       Straight Migrants Queering European Man      Nacira Guenif        Queering Euro-Global Politics      Queering European Sexualities Through Italy's Fascist Past: Colonialism, Homosexuality, and Masculinities      Sandra Ponzanesi      Queer, Republican France, and Its Euro-American \"Others\"      Lucille Cairns        From European Grand Narratives to Queer Counter-Stories       Sick Man of Transl-Asia: Bruce Lee and Queer Cultural Translation      Paul Bowman       What's Queer about Remy, Ratatouille, and French Cuisine?      Laure Murat       Pathos as Queer Sociality in Contemporary European Visual Culture: Francois Ozon's Time to Leave      Emma Wilson       Queer\/Euro Visions      Carl Stychin        Notes       Bibliography       Index","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406136811863,"sku":"9780823255351","price":74.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823255351.jpg?v=1730494651","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/whats-queer-about-europe-9780823255351","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}