Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 The Diaspora Queers Back : Reflections on Rebetology and Zine-making
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'This autoethnographic text details the author’s reflections on his own positionality and process in researching and publishing a zine in the emerging and contested field of queer rebetology. By using the archive as a means for scholarly and creative interventions in the Greek urban music genre of rebetika, the author draws attention to the process of erasure that has occurred in discourses surrounding the genre’s queer exponents, sites of performance and subcultures. The author’s position as a second-generation Greek-Australian in exploring these histories is framed as a “queering back” to the dominant discourses produced in Greece by local researchers and writers. It is argued that this distance to Greece “proper” allows the author the privilege and vantage point from which to explore the queer elements of a music genre that has now become entangled in the normative, nationalist and homophobic discourses of the modern Greek nation-state.'

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    y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies vol. 36 no. 6 2022 26607477 2022 periodical issue 'This special section draws on research being carried out on a significant though largely hidden archive of multicultural writing held at Deakin University – the Australian Multicultural Collection (AMC)—established in 1991 by literary and cultural theorist Sneja Gunew. The goal of the AMC was to support research of multicultural groups with connections to Australia, with an emphasis on diasporic writers, artists, and interdisciplinary creatives living in Australia at the time, forming ‘the first comprehensive collection of multicultural literature in Australia’ (Gunew, Post 133). The AMC was maintained for approximately ten years via the Australian Multicultural Bicentennial Foundation. The intention was for the archive to be continually updated; however, after Gunew left Australia for Canada in the early twenty-first century, engagement with the archive dwindled, to the extent that, when Gunew attempted to donate books from her personal collection upon her retirement, she was unable to locate its whereabouts.' (Archives and autographics: reanimating diaspora in the Transpacific : Introduction) 2022 pg. 921-932
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