Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism
Globalization has a taste for queer cultures. Whether in advertising, film, performance art, the internet, or in the political discourses of human rights in emerging democracies, queerness sells and the transnational circulation of peoples, identities and social movements that we call "globalization" can be liberating to the extent that it incorporates queer lives and cultures. From this perspective, globalization is seen as allowing the emergence of queer identities and cultures on a global...
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Globalization has a taste for queer cultures. Whether in advertising, film, performance art, the internet, or in the political discourses of human rights in emerging democracies, queerness sells and the transnational circulation of peoples, identities and social movements that we call "globalization" can be liberating to the extent that it incorporates queer lives and cultures. From this perspective, globalization is seen as allowing the emergence of queer identities and cultures on a global scale. The essays in Queer Globalizations bring together scholars of postcolonial and lesbian and gay studies in order to examine from multiple perspectives the narratives that have sought to define globalization. In examining the tales that have been spun about globalization, these scholars have tried not only to assess the validity of the claims made for globalization, they have also attempted to identify the tactics and rhetorical strategies through which these claims and through which global circulation are constructed and operate. Contributors include Joseba Gabilondo, Gayatri Gopinath, Janet Ann Jakobsen, Miranda Joseph, Katie King, William Leap, Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, Bill Maurer, Cindy Patton, Chela Sandoval, Ann Pellegrini, Silviano Santiago, and Roberto Strongman.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Dissident Sexualities/Alternative Globalisms11The Wily Homosexual (First - and Necessarily Hasty - Notes)132Dissident Globalizations, Emancipatory Methods, Social-Erotics203"There Are No Lesbians Here": Lesbianisms, Feminisms, and Global Gay Formations334Can Homosexuals End Western Civilization As We Know It? Family Values in a Global Economy495Family Affairs: The Discourse of Global/Localization716Redecorating the International Economy: Keynes, Grant, and the Queering of Bretton Woods1007Consuming Lifestyle: Commodity Capitalism and Transformations in Gay Identity1348Local Sites/Global Contexts: The Transnational Trajectories of Deepa Mehta's Fire1499Dancing La Vida Loca: The Queer Nuyorican Performances of Arthur Aviles and Elizabeth Marrero16210Syncretic Religion and Dissident Sexualities17611Stealth Bombers of Desire: The Globalization of "Alterity" in Emerging Democracies19512"Strangers on a Train": Sexual Citizenship and the Politics of Public Transportation in Apartheid Cape Town21913Like Blood for Chocolate, Like Queers for Vampires: Border and Global Consumption in Rodriguez, Tarantino, Arau, Esquivel, and Troyano (Notes on Baroque, Camp, Kitsch, and Hybridization)236About the Contributors265About the Editors269Index271
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