Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism
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Book Description
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.
About the Author
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé 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 IV is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the editor of Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America and author of Diasporic Divas/Global Deviants.
Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism,Arnaldo Cruz,Martin F., IV Manalansan,Arnaldo Cruz-Malave,New York University Press,0814716245,Gay Studies,Gender Studies,Globalization,Homosexuality,Human rights,Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights,Social Science,Sociology
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