Queer Diasporas
Queer Diasporas presents essays that explore how sexuality and sexual identity change when individuals, ideologies, and media move across literal and figurative boundaries. Speaking from a diverse range of ethnic, racial, and national sites, the contributors to this volume illustrate how queer identity in particular is affected in ways that are as varied and nuanced as the cultural, social, and physical environments themselves.\ Incorporating literary analysis, ethnographic research, and...
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A groundbreaking collection of essays examining the effects of mobility and displacement on queer sexual identities and practices.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: With a Passport Out of Eden1Migratory Vices15Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan38Outing Freud's Zionism, or, the Bitextuality of the Diaspora Jew71Of Queens and Castanets: Hispanidad, Orientalism, and Sexual Difference105Jekyll and Claude: The Erotics of Patronage in Claude McKay's Banana Bottom122Reinaldo Arenas, Re-writer Revenant, and the Re-patriation of Cuban Homoerotic Desire154Diasporic Deviants/Divas: How Filipino Gay Transmigrants "Play with the World"183Queer Urbanities: A Walk on the Wild Side204Sexing the Kitchen: Okoge and Other Tales of Contemporary Japan215"How Did I Get So Anal?": Queer Self-Authorization at the Margins245Queer in Israel: "Walid"263Works Cited281Index301Contributors305
\ From the Publisher“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\ \ \
