Queer Culture In Romania 19202018 Ramona Dima by Ramona Dima 9783031388484, 9783031388491, 3031388488, 3031388496 instant download after payment.

This unique and extensive volume on Romanian queer cultural products brings an essential and much needed contribution to the literature on Central and SEE gender studies, post-communism studies, media, cultural studies and transnational queer studies. Its methodology is context-driven: I look at Romanian queer culture “from inside”, and also from the acknowledgement that the research process is guided by the sensitivity of the approached topics, by the lack of archival footprints and by a solid dose of media archaeology, especially considering the beginning of Romanian LGBT+ activism in the 90s. The study starts with contemporary Romanian cultural products that are either focusing on queer topics or produced by queer creators. It looks back, using so many lenses, into the memories of seminal queer and trans activists sharing their experiences with the author in extensive interviews conducted for this volume, fragmented literary and media sources that cover most part of the twentieth century. This book offers an extensive analysis of cultural products of different genres, as the author is fully aware that her own analysis bears the heavy responsibility of acting as an archive and as a mediator between often small, independent, nearly forgotten acts or objects, and the world. While there is a select, albeit not extensive, body of research and publications when it comes to queer affects and culture in Central Europe and the Balkans, particularly in the second half of the twentieth century, none, and no one, has been looking in enough depth into Romania. Romania has a post-colonial history, followed by its communist history, its situation as a shutdown country, under the influence of Soviet Russia. Its specific queer history—and the very late removal of anti-LGBT legislation in 2001, as well as its fundamental patriarchal social structure, make it an excellent analysis case. These are some of the reasons for the difficulties in accessing and understanding this