A MASOCHISTIC HOMO-HISTORY. A READING OF THE BERLIN 'SCHWULES MUSEUM' (Masochistyczna homo-historia. Lektura berlinskiego 'Schwules Museum')

• Authors: Rosol Piotr S.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The permanent exhibition at the Berlin 'Schwules Museum' - approached as a historical as well as historiographic text; as a venue of remembrance; plus, as an institution that shapes and imposes a certain image of the past; as a collection of scholarly discourses; and, an archive providing a model of cognition - has been subject to a critical reading within the new humanities horizon, situated between a history of homosexualism and a homo-history - hence, between a universalistic narrative within the traditional academic 'grand story' that precludes 'otherness' on the grounds of the 'power-knowledge-delight' system, and, a self-counter-history harnessed to fight for justice and to a new identity politics that is backed with methodological instruments of the queer theory and gay and lesbian studies.

Keywords

EN

'SCHWULES MUSEUM' - BERLIN; GENDER STUDIES; OTHERNESS.; QUEER THEORY

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 5(113)
• Pages: 51-63
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Rosol Piotr S.

• Piotr Seweryn Rosol, c/o Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Literatury Polskiej, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poand

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA056010