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- Title
Troubling Sameness.
- Authors
BOOVY, BRADLEY
- Abstract
This essay examines what Jin Haritaworn, Tamila Tauqir, and Esra Erdem have referred to as "uninterrogated whiteness" ("unhinterfragtes Weißsein") in the construction of queer subjectivities in German culture. A discussion of the term gleichgesinnt, a euphemism for "homosexual" in the mid- twentieth century, exposes the ways in which gay German identity in particular has been confl ated with presumed whiteness, and suggest broader implications for critiques of German sexual subjectivities rooted in antiracist feminist and Queer of Color analyses. These intellectual traditions can help German studies scholars develop intersectional approaches to researching gender and sexuality in German literature and culture, and articulate critiques of Germanness more broadly.
- Subjects
GERMANY; GENDER identity; RACIAL identity of white people; SOCIAL conditions in Germany; HOMOSEXUALITY; FEMINISM; HUMAN sexuality in literature
- Publication
Women in German Yearbook, 2016, Vol 32, p152
- ISSN
1058-7446
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.5250/womgeryearbook.32.2016.0152