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

[rich]

Aue, if memory serves, only has had sex with his sister, because of
which, he won't have sex with any other woman. In fact, he seems to
have sex with other men so he can play the female role, in some sort
of weird homage to said sister.

I think Himmler was just as scared of homosexuality as much as he was
of the Jews--the SA and Freikorps were notorious for having many
homosexuals as members, as did the SS, leading Himmler's attempts to
eradicate it from its ranks

I think its the movie The Damned which really mashes together the
Nazi/Queer element

One recent critique of GR finds Pynchon at fault for furthering the
stereotype--the ex-camp male inmates awaiting Blicero's return, e.g.

rich

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
> 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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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:11 AM
> Subject: Fwd: JUDITH JACK HALBERSTAM - "The Killer in Me is the Killer in
> You: Homosexuality & Fascism"
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>> 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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