Abstract

This chapter provokes an encounter between Queer and Europe. Encounters are both threats and opportunities that reveal ideological investments. Therefore, the chapter's aim is to exacerbate rather than conceal the destabilizing consequences of conjoining Queer and Europe. The objective is not to reach a better definition of each of the terms. Instead, the hypothesis is that the encounter between a chaotic set of discourses that form the Queer and European constellation constitutes a mutual critique of some of the parameters that organized them as cultural discourses, and empower or disempower those cultural agents who work as (non)Queers or (non)Europeans. A double and chiasmatic back and forth movement operates a simultaneous Queering of Europe and a Europeanizing of Queer.

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