IŠČE SE ČUDAŠKI OTROK: QUEEROVSKI OTROK IN OTROŠTVO
QUEER CHILD WANTED: QUEERING THE CHILD AND THE CHILDHOOD

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the queer child, the non-normative child who usually stays hidden in formulations of the child as an innocent but presumably heterosexual human being. Therefore, our research is guided by two research questions: where to find and how to talk about the queer child. Since the queer child is usually denied a place within formulations of childhood and thus an articulation of queer desires in the present tense (“I am a queer child”) happens only rarely, we try to find it in fiction with autobiographical elements that are queering the child retrospectively. Through examples of the biomythography Zami: A New Spelling of my Name and an experimental documentary Hide and Seek, we seek to show how queer childhood opens up possibilities of different formulations of desire and growth, whose direction and outcome cannot be easily defined.

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