Queer Diasporas

by Patton, Cindy; Sanchez-Eppler, Benigno; Barale, Michele Aina; Goldberg, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780822324225
• ISBN10: 0822324229
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"To call this provocative collection wide-ranging would give new life to a cliche. 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 Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: With a Passport Out of Eden

Migratory Vices

Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan

Outing Freud's Zionism, or, the Bitextuality of the Diaspora Jew

Of Queens and Castanets: Hispanidad, Orientalism, and Sexual Difference

Jekyll and Claude: The Erotics of Patronage in Claude McKay's Banana Bottom

Reinaldo Arenas, Re-writer Revenant, and the Re-patriation of Cuban Homoerotic Desire

Diasporic Deviants/Divas: How Filipino Gay Transmigrants "Play with the World"

Queer Urbanites: A Walk on the Wild Side

Sexing the Kitchen: Okoge and Other Tales of Contemporary Japan

"How Did I Get So Anal?": Queer Self-Authorization at the Margins

Queer in Israel "Walid" collected

Works Cited

Index

Contributors

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