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It is now almost 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fragmentation of the Soviet Union into a series of republics and the rejection of communist politics in much of the former Eastern Bloc. Seen by many as a victory for the capitalist West over the communist East, the geopolitics of this period was far more complicated than this. Across a series of essays and artist contributions, Red Africa explores the crosscurrents of international solidarity and friendship. The aesthetic experience of the works and the exhibition is also an invitation for the visitor to explore what Leila Ghandi and others have described as a politics of affective community. Red Africa is the culmination of a two-year research programme and exhibition project at Calvert 22, London, and Iwalewa House, Bayreuth. This traced the work of African artists and filmmakers who studied in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc under free education schemes originally offered under the Third International, discontinued during Stalin's reign, then brought back during Khruschev's thaw. Connections were particularly strong with countries such as Mozambique, Ghana, Ethiopia and Angola that were conducting liberation struggles or which, post-independence, were part of the Non-Aligned Movement which held its first Summit conference in Belgrade in 1961. Red Africa is beautifully illustrated with film stills, artworks and archival images drawing on the extensive research of the contributing artists, researchers and curators. Contributors include Onejoon Che, Radovan Cukic and Ivan Manojlovic, Ros Gray, Ana Balona de Oliveira, Burt Cesar, Filipa Cesar, Angela Ferreira, Yevgenyi Fiks, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Isaac Julien, Alexander Markov, Jo Ratcliffe, Polly Savage, Nadine Siegert, Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, The Travelling Communique Group, Milica Tomic, Tonel and Vanessa Vasic-Janekovic.

Introduction: Why Jewish, Muslim, and Queer? -- Part I. Boundary Crossings and Intersectionality -- 1. Queer-Jewish-Muslim: Constructing Hyphenated Religious Identities through Tactics of Intersubjectivity -- 2. Queer Disguises: Jewish Women's Performance of Race and Gender in the Colonial Maghreb -- 3. "A Living Tableau of Queerness": The Orient at the Crossroads of Genre and Gender in Proust's Recherche -- Part II. Public Discourse and Identity -- 4. Queering the Abrahamic Scriptures -- 5. A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of the Discursive Construction of LGBT Muslims and Jews in UK Media -- Part III. Building Community, Forging Solidarity -- 6. Religious Life Is Life Together: Ritual, Liminality, and Communitas among Queer Jews in Postsecular Britain -- 7. Eid Parties, Iftar Dinners, and Pride Parades: Navigating Queer Muslim Identity through Community -- Afterword: Lessons in Historical Nominalism -- Contributors -- Index.

Transatlantic democracy in the 20th century - this concept goes beyond the idea of an American civilizing mission in Europe after two World Wars, and certainly beyond the notion of re-educating Germans, and making them fit for Western institutions after Nazism. As democracy is being contested anew in the beginning of the 21st century, a much more complicated landscape of democracy since 1900 emerges. Transfer was not a one-way-street, and patterns of conflict and transformation affected both American and European political societies. American democracy may not be reduced to a resilient defense of original traditions, while the narrative of German democracy is more than redemption from catastrophe. The essays in this volume contribute to a new history of transatlantic democracy that accounts for its manifold experiences and constant renegotiations, up to the current challenges of American and European populism.