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The Queer Art of History
Queer Kinship after Fascism
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadly argue for a queer history that moves beyond bounded concepts and narratives of identity, showing how an analytic of kinship more fully illuminates the work of solidarity and intersectional organizing across difference.
Author / Editor information
Jennifer V. Evans is Professor of History at Carleton University and author of Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin.
Reviews
"Asks urgent, uncomfortable questions of both 'queer' and 'history,' and insists that the two can still improve one another. . . . There is a love for queer history running through Evans’s monograph; it is not a cold, calculating deconstruction of our love for our past but instead a proposal for how we can love it better."
-- Ben Miller The Baffler
"Evans offers a new tour de force, a new methodological intervention and a new way to write queer history. ... Besides her revolutionary analysis of the role of art and the senses for our understanding of the archive and temporalities, this book should be considered essential reading for all historians specializing in German history."
-- Sebastien Tremblay German History
"A radical and inspiring take on not just the past, but on the practice of history writing itself, The Queer Art of History runs full force toward the emotionality of encountering queer ancestry. The solidarity in difference, or a relationality beyond familial bonds, that Evans’ elaboration of kinship centers creates possibilities for queer history-making that encourages the historian to feel complicated about their subjects as kin."
-- Christopher Ewing Journal of Family History
-- Christopher Ewing Journal of Family History
"In this dynamic work, Evans explores the reality and memory of queer experience in Germany since the fall of the Third Reich. . . . This book will rightfully become a staple text for any and all researchers of post-war German queer life."
-- William R. Jones Gender & Society
-- William R. Jones Gender & Society
"Jennifer Evans’s The Queer Art of History is a dazzling collection of theoretical-historical essays organized around a central claim: that (LGBTQ) identities are unsatisfactory and overdetermined lenses through which to view queer history and that we might instead be better served by a methodology of kinship."
-- Samuel Clowes Huneke Journal of the History of Sexuality
-- Samuel Clowes Huneke Journal of the History of Sexuality
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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INTRODUCTION
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1 ENTANGLED HISTORIES
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2 THE OPTICS OF DESIRE
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3 IMAGINING TRANS*GRESSION
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4 PATHWAYS TO LIBERATION
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5 THE BOUNDARIES OF TOLERATION
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6 QUEER KINSHIP IN DANGEROUS TIMES
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EPILOGUE
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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