Queer stories of Europe

Titel: Queer stories of Europe / edited by Karlis Verdinš and Janis Ozolinš
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Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2016
Umfang: vi, 242 Seiten ; 21 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9781443897907
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. vii
  • Editors' Introduction
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • Queer Narratives in Contemporary Literature
  • Chapter 1
  • The End of Gay and Lesbian Literature as a Happy End
  • p. 6
  • Chapter 2
  • The Mainstream, the Sidestream and the Irrigation Ditch: British Gay Literature and the Parched Reader
  • p. 36
  • Chapter 3
  • Fact and Fiction, Insistence and Resistance: Germany's Struggle with Queer Interventions
  • p. 50
  • Chapter 4
  • Articulation beyond Representation, or, What's Queer about Queer Narratives?
  • p. 64
  • Chapter 5
  • Death Penalty or 'Death and Transfiguration'?: Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and its Reception in English-Language Literature ('Ganymede' by Daphne du Maurier)
  • p. 81
  • Chapter 6
  • Queer Melancholia and the Limits of Identification in Andra Neiburga's Short Story "Man-doll"
  • p. 100
  • Part II
  • History of Central and East Europe Revisited
  • Chapter 1
  • Literary Queer Mésalliances in Riga around 1900
  • p. 110
  • Chapter 2
  • The Harden-Eulenburg Affair and the Latvian Image of Germans
  • p. 123
  • Chapter 3
  • Import from the West vs. Import from the Past: Queer Movement in the First Half of the 20th Century in Slovak Context
  • p. 134
  • Chapter 4
  • Communication of Non-normative Sexuality in Inter-war Latvia (1920s and 1930s)
  • p. 144
  • Chapter 5
  • Decriminalization of Homosexual Acts in Czechoslovakia in 1961
  • p. 174
  • Chapter 6
  • Latvian Queerness Mirrored: Andris Grinbergs vs. Andy Warhol
  • p. 195
  • Chapter 7
  • Ukrainian Queer Culture: The Difficult Birth
  • p. 206
  • Chapter 8
  • The Story about "A Minority in Minority": The Case of Christian Lesbians in Latvia
  • p. 226
  • Contributors
  • p. 240