A Badge of Injury: The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory

Sébastien Tremblay

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2024

A Badge of Injury

The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory

Sébastien Tremblay

Volume 2 in the series Transnational Queer Histories

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111067711

Overview
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About this book

A Badge of Injury is a contribution to both the fields of queer and global history. It analyses gay and lesbian transregional cultural communication networks from the 1970s to the 2000s, focusing on the importance of National Socialism, visual culture, and memory in the queer Atlantic. Provincializing Euro-American queer history, it illustrates how a history of concepts which encompasses the visual offers a greater depth of analysis of the transfer of ideas across regions than texts alone would offer. It also underlines how gay and lesbian history needs to be reframed under a queer lens and understood in a global perspective. Following the journey of the Pink Triangle and its many iterations, A Badge of Injury pinpoints the roles of cultural memory and power in the creation of gay and lesbian transregional narratives of pride or the construction of the historical queer subject. Beyond a success story, the book dives into some of the shortcomings of Euro-American queer history and the power of the negative, writing an emancipatory yet critical story of the era.

Author / Editor information

Sébastien Tremblay, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany.

Reviews

"This remarkable and engaging book criticizes exclusionary notions of victimhood and insightfully discusses how past suffering was re-presented. I warmly recommend it to all who wonder how ‘gay consciousness’ was built and how this baggage could be queerly transported into the future we are currently envisioning." – Benno Gammerl, Professor for History of Gender and Sexuality, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

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"A Badge of Injury makes an important contribution to debates around emancipatory movements and their reliance on history and symbols to stake their claims. Tremblay nudges us to think expansively about how the pink triangle functioned as an emblem of suffering that had the power to unite as well as divide. Essential reading in these turbulent times." – Jennifer Evans, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XIX
Introduction – There and back again: A Pink Triangle’s journey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 A badge of continuities – Pink radical politics and identification with the Nazi past Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2 A badge of narratives – Pink Triangles, written communication networks, and the Queer Atlantic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
3 A badge of memory – Defining and remembering victimhood in the queer Atlantic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
4 A badge of inclusion – Carving Pink Triangles into stone and shaping the queer subject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
5 A badge of exclusion – Pink Triangle frameworks and the limits of collective memory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
6 A badge of universalization – Pink Triangles and the limits of Euro-American queer suffering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
7 A badge of survival – AIDS activism, Pink Triangles, and an aesthetic of injury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
8 A badge of temporalities – European time and asynchronous Pink Triangle modernities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
9 A badge of visibility – Branding Pink Triangles for emancipation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Epilogue – The Pink Triangle in homonationalist times Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Historians (global, queer, transatlantic and conceptual history) as well as scholars in German, queer and memory studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 20
- Main content: 282
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 6
Keywords: Pink triangle; memory; Global history; Queer / LGBT history

eBook

Published: December 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783111067711

Hardcover

Published: December 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783111066752