Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity
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...
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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.
Acknowledgments ixNotes on Transliterations and Translations xiIntroduction: An Embarrassment of Meanings 11 Russian Gays/Western Gaze: Mapping the (Homo)Sexual Landscape of Post-Soviet Russia 192 Making a Spectacle of Homosexuality: The Problem of Gay (In)Visibility 433 The Other Within Us: Homosexual Panic and the Post-Soviet Detektiv 714 Resurrecting the Spiritual Homosexual: Homosexuality and Russian Cultural Citizenship 915 Perversion, Inversion, and Literary Forebears: Homosexuality and the Search for a Post-Soviet Aesthetics 121Notes 153Bibliography 191Index 203
