Rustam Alexander: Red Closet

The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR. UK 2023, 288 pp., hardbound, € 37.95
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Manchester University Press
In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a naive Scottish journalist based in Moscow who dared to write to Stalin in an attempt to save his lover from prosecution, and ... Weiterlesen

John-Pierre Joyce: Odd Men out

Male Homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to Gay Liberation. UK 2022, 368 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.99
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Manchester University Press
»Odd Men out« examines the transformation of homosexual men from odd to normal during the tumultuous decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Using new and original research, John-Pierre Joyce explores contemporary attitudes to gay men and the development of a gay identity. He considers the extent and limits of homosexual repression and liberation, and analyses the dilemmas posed by the ... Weiterlesen

Ben Nichols: Same Old

Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness. UK 2020, 222 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Manchester University Press
»Same Old« offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to »difference«, queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to »sameness« only thwart and stymie queer forms of life. But this book takes a number of these ideas as its focus - ... Weiterlesen

Alberto Fernández Carbajal: Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Literature and Film

UK 2019, 276 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Manchester University Press
This book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day. Bringing together a variety of contemporary writers and filmmakers of Muslim heritage engaged in vindicating same-sex desire, the book approaches queer Muslims in the diaspora as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West ... Weiterlesen

William Hughes / Andrew Smith (eds.): Queering the Gothic

UK 2009, 195 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Manchester University Press
»Queering the Gothic« is the first multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the 18th century and the present, the contributors explore the relationship between reading Gothically and reading Queerly, making this collection both an important reassessment of the Gothic tradition and a significant contribution to ... Weiterlesen