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In Eastern Europe and Eurasia, LGBT+ individuals face repression by
state forces and non-state actors who attempt to reinforce their
vision of traditional social values. Decolonizing Queer Experience
moves beyond discourses of oppression and repression to explore the
resistance and resilience of LGBT+ communities who are remaking the
post-socialist world; they refuse domination from local
heteronormative expectations and from global LGBT+ movements that
create and suggest limitations on possible LGBT+ futures. The
chapters in this collection feature a multiplicity of LGBT+ voices,
suggesting that no single narrative of LGBT+ experience in
post-socialism is more representative or informative than another.
This collection highlights the globally flexible, infinitely
malleable notion of LGBT+ that counters Western hegemony in queer
activism and communities.
Since the end of state socialism and the unifying efforts of the
Soviet Union, questions about LGBT+ have gained increasing
attention among scholars of various disciplines. In the region of
Eastern Europe and Eurasia, LGBT+ individuals face repression by
state forces, as well as by non-state actors attempting to
reinforce their vision of traditional social values. Understanding
this context, Decolonizing Queer Experience moves beyond discourses
of oppression and repression to explore the resistance and
resilience of LGBT+ communities that are remaking the
post-socialist world in ways that refuse domination from their own,
local heteronormative expectations as well as those imposed from
global LGBT+ movements that also create and suggest limitations on
possible LGBT+ futures. These chapters reflect a multiplicity of
voices that fall into a broad community of LGBT+ people, suggesting
that no single narrative of LGBT+ experience in post-socialism is
more representative or informative than another. These chapters are
evidence of a globally flexible, infinitely malleable notion of
LGBT+ that counters Western hegemony in queer activism and
communities.
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Twelve Circles (Paperback)
Yuri Andrukhovych; Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky
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R508
R433
Discovery Miles 4 330
Save R75 (15%)
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The Moscoviad (Paperback)
Vitaly Chernetsky; Photographs by Slava Mogutin; Yuri Andrukhovych
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R386
Discovery Miles 3 860
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Fiction. Eastern European Studies. Translated from the Ukrainian by
Vitaly Chernetsky. "The literary dormitory at Moscow University
becomes a kind of Russian Grand Hotel, serving the last supper of
empire to a host of writers gathered from every corner of the
continent, and beyond. Young poets from Vietnam, Mongolia, Yakutia,
Uzbekistan, Russia, and Ukraine assemble to study, drink, frolic,
and explore each other and the decaying city around them. When the
supper turns into a bacchanal, who's surprised? 'The empire
betrayed its drunks. And thus doomed itself to disintegration.'
Part howl, part literary slapstick, part joyful dirge, charged with
the brashness of youth, betraying the vision of the permanent
outsider, Andrukhovych's novel suggests that literature really is
news that stays news. Funny, buoyant, flamboyant, ground-breaking,
and as revelatory today as when it was first published in
Ukrainian, THE MOSCOVIAD remains a literary milestone. In spirit
and intellectual brio Andrukhovych, whose irreverence makes Borat
seem pious, is kin to the great Halldor Laxness and the venerable
David Foster Wallace"--Askold Melnyczuk.
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