From the Publisher
“A major new contribution to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the complex convergences of empire, sexuality, and transnational cultural politics. Through elegant analyses of influential and emergent texts spanning two hemispheres and over a century, Ponce’s book is as far-reaching and urgently grounded as the queer diasporic formations it illuminates.” -Victor Bascara,author of Model Minority Imperialism
“Beyond the Nation is one of the most original, scrupulous, and moving books in Asian American literary criticism that has been published in the past fifteen years. Grounded in exhaustive research on a fragmented, challenging archive of Anglophone Filipino writings, this book poses the deceptively simple question, how far does meaning travel? While questions of queer diaspora, globalization, and cosmopolitanism have become taken upand perhaps mired indebates about the exclusionary or hegemonic nature of elite queer identities, Ponce’s approach to orientation reminds us of the utopian possibilities of what it means to be queer.” -Sarita Echavez See,University of Michigan