A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing - Softcover

So Mayer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1913512029 ISBN 13: 9781913512026

Publisher: Peninsula Press, 2020

Synopsis

An essay on art, bodies and fascism

In an era where identity politics is being weaponised against the very people it has sought to make visible, how can we reclaim complexity?

In 1937 the Nazis staged an exhibition of seized modernist artworks. Named Entartete ‘Kunst’ – Degenerate ‘Art’ – it sought to define degeneracy, display it and destroy it. This act of violent appropriation is one episode in a long and ongoing history of the erasure of queer and non-normative cultures.

A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing works against this erasure; it is a manifesto – a catalogue for an exhibition that could never take place. Drawing on work from dissident sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld to South African artist Zanele Muholi, as well as a century of queer cinema from Sergei Eisenstein to Pedro Almodóvar, So Mayer creates an archive of resistance.

How might we continue the joyous riot?

About this title

About the Author

So Mayer is a writer, bookseller, activist and member of queer feminist film curation collective Club des Femmes. They have published four collections of poetry in the UK and US and written and co-edited five books on feminist cinema, including the influential Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (IB Tauris). Their recent essays have appeared in On Relationships (3 of Cups), At the Pond (Daunt Books) and Roxane Gay’s anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture. Their critical work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, Hotel, Poetry Review, Sight & Sound, and Film Quarterly. Their collaborative essay on friendship and feminisms with Preti Taneja, Tender Questions, was published by Peninsula Press in 2018.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peninsula Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913512029
• ISBN 13: 9781913512026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160