ISBN:
0230612245
,
9780230612242
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 215 p)
,
22 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Other Russias : Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity
DDC:
306.7660947
Keywords:
Gays Social conditions
;
Homosexuality and literature
;
Homosexuality Social aspects
;
Homosexuality
;
Gays Identity
;
Homosexuality in motion pictures
;
Homosexuality -- Social aspects -- Russia (Federation)
;
Homosexuality and literature -- Russia (Federation)
;
Gays -- Russia (Federation) -- Identity
;
Gays -- Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions
;
Homosexuality -- Russia (Federation)
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book examines the unprecedented explosion of homosexual discourse in post-Soviet Russia and details how homosexuality has come to signify a surprising and often contradictory array of uniquely post-Soviet concerns
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Transliterations and Translations; Introduction: An Embarrassment of Meanings; 1 Russian Gays/Western Gaze: Mapping the (Homo)Sexual Landscape of Post-Soviet Russia; 2 Making a Spectacle of Homosexuality: The Problem of Gay (In)Visibility; 3 The Other Within Us: Homosexual Panic and the Post-Soviet Detektiv; 4 Resurrecting the Spiritual Homosexual: Homosexuality and Russian Cultural Citizenship; 5 Perversion, Inversion, and Literary Forebears: Homosexuality and the Search for a Post-Soviet Aesthetics; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-202) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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