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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 theories of diaspora, migration, and transnationalism, the essays in this volume address an impressive range of topics, from the divergent medical and epidemiological understandings of the AIDS pandemic to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction. While one chapter focuses on the appropriation of religious ceremony by gay Filipino immigrants in New York City, another investigates the implicit connection between Jewishness and homosexuality in the work of Freud. The gendering of domestic roles in food preparation and consumption in Japanese society gives way to a discussion of Cuban and Jamaican homoeroticism as seen in the works of Reinaldo Arenas and Claude McKay. Chilean author D’Halmar’s orientalization of Spain as queer space and the hybrid nature of queer ‘zine culture in Quebec are the subject of others. The collection concludes with a monologue by “Walid,” a young gay Arab living in the occupied territory, whose sexual and national identities change according to his sexual and social needs.
Illuminating the complex nature of queerness in the postmodern world, Queer Diasporas contributes to the advancement of gay and lesbian studies. It will be important to those working in cultural, literary, and postcolonial studies.
Contributors. Michele Aina Barale, Daniel Boyarin, Sandra Buckley, Rhonda Cobham, Amir Sumaka’i Fink, Marcie Frank, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Sylvia Molloy, Cindy Patton, Jacob Press, Jennifer Robertson, Benigno SÁnchez-Eppler
Table des matières
Acknowledgments
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
Contributors
A propos de l'auteur
Cindy Patton is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. She is the author of numerous books, including Inventing AIDS and Fatal Advice, also published by Duke University Press.
Benigno SÁnchez-Eppler is an Independent Scholar living in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Résumé
Presents 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.
