The queer art of history: queer kinship after fascism

In The Queer Art of History Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadly argue for a practice of queer history that moves beyond bounded concepts and narratives of identity. Drawing on black feminism, queer of color critique, and trans studies, Evans points out that...

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Main Author: Evans, Jennifer V. 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham ; London Duke University Press 2023
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Summary:In The Queer Art of History Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadly argue for a practice of queer history that moves beyond bounded concepts and narratives of identity. Drawing on black feminism, queer of color critique, and trans studies, Evans points out that although many rights for LGBTQI people have been gained in Germany, those rights have not been enjoyed equally. There remain fundamental struggles around whose bodies, behaviors, and communities belong. Evans uses kinship as an analytic category to identify the fraught and productive ways that Germans have confronted race, gender nonconformity, and sexuality in social movements, art, and everyday life. Evans shows how kinship illuminates the work of solidarity and intersectional organizing across difference and offers an openness to forms of contemporary and historical queerness that may escape the archive's confines. Through forms of kinship, queer and trans people test out new possibilities for citizenship, love, public, and family life in postwar Germany in ways that question claims about liberal democracy, the social contract, and the place of identity in rights-based discourses
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 294 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten)
ISBN:9781478024361
DOI:10.1515/9781478024361

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