Queers in State Socialism

Cruising 1970s Poland
Herausgeber: Basiuk, Tomasz; Burszta, J¿drzej

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• LGBTQ Histories
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780367563349
• ISBN-10: 0367563347
• Artikelnr.: 60010319

Autorenporträt

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 odmie¿ca/A Queer Mixture (2002), Parametry pö¿dania (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 Ku¿ma-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." J¿drzej 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 Gr¿becka, 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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: queers in the People's Republic of Poland: an uneven
landscape Part 1: Socialities and their literary models 2. Three circles of
male homosexual life in state-socialist Poland 3. One's younger self in
personal testimony and literary translation 4. "Transgression has become a
fact": a Gothic genealogy of queerness in the People's Republic of Poland
5. Queens and faggots, Petites Folles et Pédales: representation of
Communist-era Polish queers in translations of Lubiewo ( Lovetown ) Part 2:
Expert discourses 6. Diagnosing transsexualism, diagnosing society: the
blurred genres of Polish sexology in the 1970s and 1980s 7. "Treatment is
possible and effective?": Polish sexologists and queers in correspondence
in late state socialism 8. "No authorities are interested in us, no one
interferes in our affairs?": policing homosexual men in the People's
Republic of Poland Part 3: Queer intelligibility and unintelligibility 9.
"No one talked about it": the paradoxes of lesbian identity in pre-1989
Poland 10. Queer (in)visibility in the art of the People's Republic of
Poland