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The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism

Jennifer V. Evans

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In The Queer Art of History Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadly argue for a practice of queer history that moves beyond bounded concepts and narratives of identity. Drawing on Black feminism, queer of color critique, and trans studies, Evans points out that although many rights for LGBTQI people have been gained in Germany, those rights have not been enjoyed equally. There remain fundamental struggles around whose bodies, behaviors, and communities belong. Evans uses kinship as an analytic category to identify the fraught and productive ways that Germans have confronted race, gender nonconformity, and sexuality in social movements, art, and everyday life. Evans shows how kinship illuminates the work of solidarity and intersectional organizing across difference and offers an openness to forms of contemporary and historical queerness that may escape the archive's confines. Through forms of kinship, queer and trans people test out new possibilities for citizenship, love, and public and family life in postwar Germany in ways that question claims about liberal democracy, the social contract, and the place of identity in rights-based discourses.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publish Date: Apr 21st, 2023
  • Pages: 312
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.20in - 6.10in - 0.90in - 1.40lb
  • EAN: 9781478017110
  • Categories: • Europe - Germany• LGBTQ+ Studies - General

About the Author

Jennifer V. Evans is Professor of History at Carleton University and author of Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin.

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"Asks urgent, uncomfortable questions of both 'queer' and 'history, ' and insists that the two can still improve one another. . . . There is a love for queer history running through Evans's monograph; it is not a cold, calculating deconstruction of our love for our past but instead a proposal for how we can love it better."--Ben Miller "The Baffler" (6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM)

"Evans offers a new tour de force, a new methodological intervention and a new way to write queer history. ... Besides her revolutionary analysis of the role of art and the senses for our understanding of the archive and temporalities, this book should be considered essential reading for all historians specializing in German history."

--Sebastien Tremblay "German History" (10/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)
"A radical and inspiring take on not just the past, but on the practice of history writing itself, The Queer Art of History runs full force toward the emotionality of encountering queer ancestry. The solidarity in difference, or a relationality beyond familial bonds, that Evans' elaboration of kinship centers creates possibilities for queer history-making that encourages the historian to feel complicated about their subjects as kin."--Christopher Ewing "Journal of Family History"
"In this dynamic work, Evans explores the reality and memory of queer experience in Germany since the fall of the Third Reich. . . . This book will rightfully become a staple text for any and all researchers of post-war German queer life."--William R. Jones "Gender & Society" (7/1/2024 12:00:00 AM)
"Jennifer Evans's The Queer Art of History is a dazzling collection of theoretical-historical essays organized around a central claim: that (LGBTQ) identities are unsatisfactory and overdetermined lenses through which to view queer history and that we might instead be better served by a methodology of kinship."--Samuel Clowes Huneke "Journal of the History of Sexuality" (9/1/2024 12:00:00 AM)

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