Israel/Palestine and the Queer International

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Schulman Klappentext Sarah Schulman is a longtime AIDS and queer activist, and a cofounder of the MIX Festival and the ACT UP Oral History Project. She is a playwright and the author of seventeen books, including the novels The Mere Future, Shimmer, Rat Bohemia, After Delores, and People in Trouble, as well as nonfiction works such as The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life during the Reagan/Bush Years, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, and Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America, which is also published by Duke University Press. She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island. Zusammenfassung At once a memoir! a call to support the Boycott! Divestment and Sanctions movement! and an argument for queer solidarity across borders! this book tells the story of how novelist and activist Sarah Schulman's became aware of how issues of the Israeli occupation of Palestine were tied to her own gay and lesbian politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Before 1 Part I. Solidarity Visit 1. Awareness 23 2. Preparation: Learning from Cinema 40 3. Maps 48 4. The Jewish Embrace 58 5. Solidarity Visit 67 6. Palestine 77 7. Finding the Strategy 86 Part II. Al-U.S. Tour 8. Homonationalism 103 9. Amreeka 133 10. Backlash 156 11. Understanding 172 Conclusion: There Is No Conclusion 175 Appendix; Brand Israel and Pinkwashing: A Documentary Guide 179 Index 187

Auteur

Sarah Schulman is a longtime AIDS and queer activist, and a cofounder of the MIX Festival and the ACT UP Oral History Project. She is a playwright and the author of seventeen books, including the novels The Mere Future, Shimmer, Rat Bohemia, After Delores, and People in Trouble, as well as nonfiction works such as The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life during the Reagan/Bush Years, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, and Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America, which is also published by Duke University Press. She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

Résumé
At once a memoir, a call to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, and an argument for queer solidarity across borders, this book tells the story of how novelist and activist Sarah Schulman's became aware of how issues of the Israeli occupation of Palestine were tied to her own gay and lesbian politics.

Contenu

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Before 1
Part I. Solidarity Visit

1. Awareness 23
2. Preparation: Learning from Cinema 40
3. Maps 48
4. The Jewish Embrace 58
5. Solidarity Visit 67
6. Palestine 77
7. Finding the Strategy 86
   Part II. Al-U.S. Tour
8. Homonationalism 103
9. Amreeka 133
10. Backlash 156
11. Understanding 172
    Conclusion: There Is No Conclusion 175
    Appendix; Brand Israel and Pinkwashing: A Documentary Guide 179
    Index 187