Masochistyczna homo-historia. Lektura berlińskiego Schwules Museum
A Masochistic Homo-History. A Reading of the Berlin Schwules Museum

Summary/Abstract: The permanent exhibition at the Berlin Schwules Museum – approached as a historical as well as historiographic text; as a venue of remembrance; plus, as an institution that shapes and imposes a certain image of the past; as a collection of scholarly discourses; and, an archive providing a model of cognition – has been subject to a critical reading within the new humanities horizon, situated between a history of homosexualism and a homo-history – hence, between a universalistic narrative within the traditional academic ‘grand story’ that precludes ‘otherness’ on the grounds of the ‘power-knowledge-delight’ system, and, a self-counter-history harnessed to fight for justice and to a new identity politics that is backed with methodological instruments of the queer theory and gay and lesbian studies.

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