JUDITH JACK HALBERSTAM - "The Killer in Me is the Killer in You: Homosexuality & Fascism"

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Currently reading "The Kindly Ones," in which the male narrator (Aue), a 
Nazi, has male lovers as well as female ones. He claims none of the male 
lovers meant anything to him. Early in the book there is a descriptive scene 
in which Aue successfully cruises for a male quickie. There are a number of 
references to homosexuality among the German troops.


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From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:11 AM
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You: Homosexuality & Fascism"


>I think we can safely say Pynchon indulges in the Nazi/Homosexual
> trope fairly often, even in IV where our tatooed Nazi is apparently
> more into being w/ men
>
> rich
>
>
>
> *JUDITH JACK HALBERSTAM
> *(Dept. of  English /Gender Studies, USC)
>
> *"The Killer in Me is the Killer in You: Homosexuality & Fascism"
> *
> October 19, 6 –8 pm
> 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
>
>
> 'In Sasha Baron Cohen's most recent camp spoof, Brüno, the very gay and 
> very
> swish Austrian fashionista compares himself several times to Hitler and
> jokes that he is "the second most misunderstood Austrian in history." The
> intersection of Nazi and homosexual that Cohen invokes has a long and 
> vexed
> history that stretches from the well-known homosexuality of Nazi storm
> troopers to eroticized images of Nazi soldiers by Tom of Finland. Leo
> Bersani notes the glorification of Nazism in the work of Jean Genet, and
> Dagmar Herzog notes in Sex After Fascism  that "popular assumptions of
> Nazism as a homosexual movement have remained remarkably durable." In this
> talk, I will return to a very important essay by Stuart Marshall from 1991
> titled: “The Contemporary Political Use of Gay History: The Third Reich ”
> from How Do I Look, and try to account for both gay Nazis and the Nazi
> persecution of homosexuals. At stake is a complex understanding of queer
> history that neither whitewashes the past nor colludes in homophobic
> renderings of it.’
>
>
> Judith Halberstam is Professor of English and Director of The Center for
> Feminist Research at USC. Halberstam teaches courses in queer studies,
> gender theory, art, literature and film. Halberstam is the author of 
> Female
> Masculinity, The Drag King Book, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the
> Technology of Monsters and a new book from NYU Press titled In a Queer 
> Time
> and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives.
>
>
>
> --
>
>


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