Serena Bassi
Yale
Host: Anja Lemke
Direktorin Auerbach Institut
Forschungsprojekt
Wars of Seduction
My current book project “Wars of Seduction: Queer Marxism in Italy after 1968” is the first cultural history of the Italian queer movement in the years of its bourgeoning, from 1968 to 1977. By considering literary texts, visual art, experimental cinema and through oral history interviews with movement participants, my project will show that the movements politicizing gender and sexuality in the Italian late sixties and seventies brought together identity politics and Marxism to create an original set of theories and aesthetics.