Out Here: Local and International Perspectives in Queer Studies
Editor: Dominika Ferens, Tomasz Basiuk and Tomasz Sikora
Date Of Publication: Jun 2006
Isbn13: 9781847180001
Isbn: 1-84718-000-0
Out Here originates from a series of queer studies conferences which took place in Poland between 2002 and 2004, and includes essays, an autobiographical account, and two short stories. Their authors are of eight nationalities: Canadian, Belgian, Flemish, German, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish, Ukrainian, and U.S. American. The academic papers represent a wide range of disciplines: philosophy, literature, ethnography, cultural and gender studies. Some combine theoretical insights and critical analysis with suggestions for activism. The short stories explore the formative moments of a queer adolescence in Anglophone Canada.

The eclecticism of Out Here reflects the cauldron-like mix of concerns taken up locally in places considered peripheral in relation to the centers of queer theory in British and American academia. It is out here (or back then), often within the context of rampant homophobia, that queer methodologies prove especially productive. Out here, queer theory is alive and kicking. Whether the authors write about sexual awakenings in Sri Lanka and Canada, or heterosexism in contemporary Ukraine, Hungary, Belgian parks, and 1970s Britain, or racial exclusion in American gay bars, or the veiled homophobia of Polish textbooks, what connects them is the commitment to questioning the limitations placed on queer desire.
Dominika Ferens (Wroclaw University), Tomasz Basiuk (Warsaw University) and Tomasz Sikora (University of Bielsko-Biala) have co-organized a series of queer studies conferences in Poland and co-edited three volumes of essays on queer issues. They are currently setting up an on-line journal of queer studies, InterAlia. Their primary specialization is American Studies.

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