Queer Diasporas (Series Q)
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (802 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822324229 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A Customer said Fabulous book on gays and transnational matters!. Loved this book! This is an anthology of academic essays on gays and gay fiction in international settings. It covers men and women and almost every regional/racial grouping. This book is an important contribution to gay studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist/womanist/mujerista studies. Unfortunately, the editors have the best pieces in the anthology (sabotage? jealousy?). Still, I think this is a great book for gay academics and gay men and lesbians of color to add to their collection.
This collection is unusual and varied.”—Marilyn Ivy, Columbia University. “Queer Diasporas is one of the first books to bring together the concerns of American queer studies with perspectives generated by cross-national, culturally comparative scholarship
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 foc