QUEER AND QUEERING IN THE GREEK CULTURAL SPHERE: THE TROUBLES OF CULTURAL TRANSLATION AND THE NON-LINEARITY OF QUEER HISTORIOGRAPHY

In the last couple of years, local queer theorists underline the emergence of `a new queer critique' in the Greek public sphere. In this context, this article draws from ethnographic and archival material to look at the troubles of cultural translation. By providing a cross-temporal re-reading of queer and feminist archives, I argue that queer and queerness in Greece goes hand in hand with a non-linear approach to time and historiography. Non-linearity is examined as a critical method and an ethnographic/ historiographical approach that significantly shifts the way narrations, stories, and histories can be recorded, documented, told, written and rewritten in Greece. The cultural translation of queer opens a critical rethinking of names, identity categories and traumas, yet it also enacts the resignification of the language used to understand strangeness and otherness.