Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9781137522009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 242 str.

Ruth Barraclough; Heather Bowen-Struyk; Paula Rabinowitz

Opis

Red Love Across the Pacific examines the transnational movement that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as a combined form of political and sexual revolution for women and men, gay and straight, and follows its trajectory during the twentieth century. Red Love expressed a desire for a new society where love itself would be radically reconfigured. Examining film, literature, biography, and the censor's archive, this book analyzes the transnational trade in representation of new, radical, often working-class forms of desire as well as the institutions that emerged to suppress them in Australia, Korea, Japan, China, Russia, and North America. Crossing the Pacific and the great divide of the pre- and post-Cold War, this book offers compelling case studies of sexual and political revolutionaries whose excavated stories transform our understanding of the twentieth century's sexual and political history.

Recenzje

"This incredibly timely collection maps the vogue for stories of eros and revolutionary politics that spread across the Asia Pacific through writing, art, and activism. Grappling with works that have been distorted by state repression and self-censorship, the authors demonstrate their compelling and often surprising implications and legacies." Cheryl Higashida, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

"Red Love Across the Pacific brings together cutting-edge work by leading scholars from Australasia, Asia, Russia, and North America. The result is a completely new understanding of the history of revolutionary movements in the trans-Pacific." Theodore Hughes, Columbia University, USA

"Red Love Across the Pacific is a unique and inspired collection of essays, brilliantly conceived Barraclough, Bowen-Struyk, and Rabinowitz are without a doubt the most eminently qualified to put together a collection such as this, and the diversity of their geopolitical fields of specialization has allowed them to envision a volume that is transnational rather than simply international." Elyssa Faison, University of Oklahoma, USA

O autorze

Tomoko Aoyama, University of Queensland, Australia Rosemary Hennessy, Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University, USA Aaron S. Lecklider, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Julia Mickenberg, University of Texas at Austin, USA Nicole Moore, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia Jiseung Roh, Incheon National University, Korea Daniel Sanderson, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Australia Alan Wald, University of Michigan, USA Maria Zavialova, Museum of Russian Art, Minnesota, USA