Queers in State Socialism - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0367563347 ISBN 13 : 9780367563349

Editeur : Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This short collection of essays engages with queer lives and activism in 1970s Poland, illustrating discourses about queerness and a trajectory of the struggle for rights which clearly sets itself apart, and differs from a western-based narrative of liberation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tomasz Basiuk is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw. He authored Exposures: American Gay Men's Life Writing since Stonewall (2013), a monograph on the novelist William Gaddis (published in Polish in 2003); co-edited, with Dominika Ferens and Tomasz Sikora, three volumes of essays on queer studies: Odmiany odmieńca/A Queer Mixture (2002), Parametry pożądania (2006), and Out Here (2006); guest-edited a special journal issue on gender and sexuality (Dialogue and Universalism XX.5-6, 2010); and co-edited, with Krystyna Mazur and Sylwia Kuźma-Marowska, The American Uses of History. Essays on Public Memory (2011). He is the co-founder of the online queer studies journal InterAlia (since 2006), a former Fulbright visiting scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Research Fellow at Indiana University at Bloomington. Basiuk served as Principal Investigator in the HERA-funded "Cruising the 1970s. Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures."

Jędrzej Burszta holds a PhD in cultural studies from the SWPS University in Warsaw (2019). He is Affiliated Faculty Member at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. His research interests include ethnography, queer theory, American speculative fiction, and popular culture. In 2015, together with Zuzanna Grębecka, he authored an ethnography of personal memories of the Soviet Army stationing in Legnica during state socialism in Poland, entitled Mówiono "druga Moskwa." Wspomnienia legniczan o stacjonowaniu Armii Radzieckiej w latach 1945-1993 (They Called it "Little Moscow." Memories of Soviet Army Stationing in Legnica in the Years 1945-1933). He is also a novelist and writes for the theatre.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367563347
• ISBN 13: 9780367563349
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 146
• Éditeur: Basiuk Tomasz, Burszta Jędrzej
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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