Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism / Edition 1

by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Martin F. Manalansan

Overview

Scholars of postcolonial and LGBT studies examine the validity of the globalization of queer cultures

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814716243
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	08/15/2002
Series:	Sexual Cultures , #9
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	281
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé (Editor)
Arnaldo Cruz-Malave is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Fordham University in New York. He is author of a study on the Cuban writer José Lezama Lima, El primitivo implorante.

Martin F. Manalansan (Editor)
Martin F. Manalansan IV is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, New York University, New School University, and the University of the Philippines. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke UP:2003). His forthcoming book is entitled “Queer Dwellings: Mess, Mesh, Measure.” He is the president of the Association for Asian American Studies.

Table of Contents

1 The Wily Homosexual (First—and Necessarily Hasty—Notes)

2 Dissident Globalizations, Emancipatory Methods, Social-Erotics

3 “There Are No Lesbians Here”: Lesbianisms, Feminisms, and Global Gay Formations

4 Can Homosexuals End Western Civilization As We Know It? Family Values in a Global Economy

5 Family Affairs: The Discourse of Global/Localization

6 Redecorating the International Economy: Keynes, Grant, and the Queering of Bretton Woods

7 Consuming Lifestyle: Commodity Capitalism and Transformations in Gay Identity

8 Local Sites/Global Contexts: The Transnational Trajectories of Deepa Mehta’s Fire\

9 Dancing La Vida Loca: The Queer Nuyorican Performances of Arthur Avilés and Elizabeth Marrero

10 Syncretic Religion and Dissident Sexualities

11 Stealth Bombers of Desire: The Globalization of “Alterity” in Emerging Democracies

12 “Strangers on a Train”: Sexual Citizenship and the Politics of Public Transportation in Apartheid Cape Town

13 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)

Editorial Reviews

"Intellectual and political project."

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"Intellectual and political project."

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