Queer globalizations : citizenship and the afterlife of colonialism /

The essays in this volume 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.

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Other Authors: Cruz, Arnaldo (Editor), Manalansan, Martin F., 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2002]
Series:Sexual cultures.
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Table of Contents:
  • The wily homosexual (first--and necessarily hasty--notes) / Silviano Santiago
  • Dissident globalizations, emancipatory methods, social erotics / Chela Sandoval
  • "There are no lesbians here" : lesbianisms, feminisms, and global gay formations / Katie King
  • Can homosexuals end western civilization as we know it? Family values in a global economy / Janet R. Jakobsen
  • Family affairs : the discourse of global/localization / Miranda Joseph
  • Redecorating the international economy : Keynes, Grant, and the queering of Bretton Woods / Bill Maurer
  • Consuming lifestyle : commodity capitalism and transformations in gay identity / Ann Pellegrini
  • Local sites/global contexts : the transnational trajectories of Deepa Mehta's Fire / Gayatri Gopinath
  • Dancing La vida loca : the queer Nuyorican performances of Arthur Avilés and Elizabeth Marrero / Lawrence M. La Fountain-Stokes
  • Syncretic religion and dissident sexualities / Roberto Strongman
  • Stealth bombers of desire : the globalization of "alterity" in emerging democracies / Cindy Patton
  • "Strangers on a train" : sexual citizenship and the politics of public transportation in apartheid Cape Town / William L. Leap
  • Like blood for chocolate, like queers for vampires : border and global consumption in Rodríguez, Tarantino, Arau, Esquivel, and Troyano (notes on baroque, camp, kitsch, and hybridization) / Joseba Gabilondo.