Description
Book SynopsisPresents essays that explore how sexuality and sexual identity change when individuals, ideologies, and media move across literal and figurative boundaries. Illuminating the complex nature of queerness in the post-modern world, this book contributes to the advancement of gay and lesbian studies.
Trade Review“
Queer Diasporas is one of the first books to bring together the concerns of American queer studies with perspectives generated by cross-national, culturally comparative scholarship. This collection is unusual and varied.”—Marilyn Ivy, Columbia University
“To call this provocative collection wide-ranging would give new life to a cliché. The essays bring to the point of ignition all the friction between local sexualities and the dislocations of a globalizing world. These tensions, in examples of a fabulous variety, resonate with the archaic meaning of
queer: a movement aslant, sideways. Sexuality is indeed on the move—not just because people are more on the move now than ever, but because non-normative sexualities so generally seem out of place and are so often enabled by the displacements of culture. This will be an extremely useful book not only for queer theory, but for anyone interested in the trajectories of identity and sexual culture in the contemporary world.”—Michael Warner, Rutgers University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: With a Passport Out of Eden / Benigno Sánchez-Eppler and Cindy Patton
Migratory Vices / Cindy Patton
Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan / Jennifer Robertson
Outing Freud’s Zionism, or, the Bitextuality of the Diaspora Jew / Daniel Boyarin
Of Queens and Castanets:
Hispanidad, Orientalism, and Sexual Difference / Sylvia Molloy
Jekyll and Claude: The Erotics of Patronage in Claude McKay’s
Banana Bottom / Rhonda Cobham
Reinaldo Arenas, Re-writer Revenant, and the Re-patriation of Cuban Homoerotic Desire / Benigno Sánchez-Eppler
Diasporic Deviants/Divas: How Filipino Gay Transmigrants “Play with the World” / Martin F. Manalansan IV
Queer Urbanites: A Walk on the Wild Side / Michèle Aina Barale
Sexing the Kitchen:
Okoge and Other Tales of Contemporary Japan / Sandra Buckley
“How Did I Get So Anal?”: Queer Self-Authorization at the Margins / Marcie Frank
Queer in Israel
“Walid” collected by Jacob Press and Amir Sumaka’i Fink Works Cited
Index
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