Bogdan Popa, "De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War" (Manchester UP, 2021)
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i wanted to tell a different story about how the cold war was fundamental to the rise of queer theory, and how concepting queer theory emerged because of the repudiation of marxs lenenis. i'm trying to think, ill be like the historian, after burney, sanders and corbin, and the realization that palesi delivers an entire theoretical shift in queer studies who as deeply engaged with a marist language and vocabulary drawn primarily from altoser about social formations, ideology, critics of ideology. So this is why i thought that marcism in eastern europe can be involved in this conversation, but in a sort of in the shape of a different historical tradition, such
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