This unprecedented book examines the explosion of homosexual discourse in post-Soviet Russia from the turbulent years of the immediate post-communist era through the more troubling recent developments of Vladimir Putin’s regime. Focusing on concepts of sexuality, gender, and national identity within competing portrayals of same-sex desire, Brian James Baer explores a variety of popular media, including fiction, film, television, music, and print to detail how homosexuality in today’s Russia has come to signify a surprising and often contradictory array of uniquely post-Soviet concerns.
Author(s): Brian James Baer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 228
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Notes on Transliterations and Translations......Page 12
Introduction: An Embarrassment of Meanings......Page 14
1 Russian Gays/Western Gaze: Mapping the (Homo)Sexual Landscape of Post-Soviet Russia......Page 32
2 Making a Spectacle of Homosexuality: The Problem of Gay (In)Visibility......Page 56
3 The Other Within Us: Homosexual Panic and the Post-Soviet Detektiv......Page 84
4 Resurrecting the Spiritual Homosexual: Homosexuality and Russian Cultural Citizenship......Page 104
5 Perversion, Inversion, and Literary Forebears: Homosexuality and the Search for a Post-Soviet Aesthetics......Page 134
Notes......Page 166
Bibliography......Page 204
B......Page 216
C......Page 217
E......Page 218
G......Page 219
H......Page 220
L......Page 221
M......Page 222
O......Page 223
R......Page 224
S......Page 225
V......Page 227
Z......Page 228
