Queer Communism and The Ministry of Love

Provides a detailed examination of a distinctive crossroads in the history of the left Queer Communism reconstructs queer writers’ engagements with a series of wide-ranging Marxist aesthetic debates, social forms and political strategies. Through case studies of Christopher Isherwood and Sylvia Townsend Warner, Salton-Cox argues that queer writing of the 1930s was deeply embedded in a network of transnational leftist formations stretching across Weimar Germany, Soviet Russia, Spain and China. Pr