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Postcolonial, Queer
Theoretical Intersections

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John C. Hawley - Editor

SUNY series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies

Price: $78.50
Hardcover - 344 pages

Release Date: August 2001

ISBN10: 0-7914-5091-0
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5091-8

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 344 pages

Release Date: August 2001

ISBN10: 0-7914-5092-9
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5092-5

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Summary

Uses postcolonial theory to critique the globalization of gay culture.

"John Hawley's Postcolonial, Queer is one of the best handbooks examining the intersection of postcolonial and queer that I have seen. It reprints some classic papers, such as Joseph Boone's essay on the homoerotics of Orientalism (from the PMLA) and includes a series of brilliant new essays running the gamut from close literary analysis of North African novels to complex cultural readings of queer politics. A solid and useful volume." -- Sander L. Gilman, The University of Illinois at Chicago

These thirteen essays address possible ramifications arising from the globalization of western notions of gay and lesbian identities. Examining postcolonial literature, economics, and psychology from a "queer" perspective leads to self-reflexive consideration of the canonization of postcolonial studies and queer theory in western academe.

"Finally, the staging of an encounter between queer and postcolonial studies where neither term turns out to be quite distinct from the other and where a new mapping of fields becomes possible. The essays probe the possibility of thinking sexuality in terms of social normativity and globalization, making breakthroughs in several directions at once: history, sociology, literature, psychology. This is the kind of scholarship most needed and most productive: it opens up the question of an encounter through several sites in provocative ways without deciding the final form of the relationship between postcolonial, queer." -- Judith Butler, University of California at Berkeley

Contributors include Dennis Altman, Joseph Boone, Jarrod Hayes, Jillana Enteen, Chong Kee Tan, Gaurav Desai, Paige Schilt, William J. Spurlin, Donald E. Morton, J. K. Gibson-Graham, Hema Chari, and Samir Dayal.

John C. Hawley is Professor of English at Santa Clara University. He has edited many books including Cross-Addressing: Resistance Literature and Cultural Borders, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
John C. Hawley

1. Rupture or Continuity? The Internationalization of Gay Identities
Dennis Altman

2. Vacation Cruises; or, The Homoerotics of Orientalism
Joseph Boone

3. Queer Resistance to (Neo-)colonialism in Algeria
Jarrod Hayes

4. Tom, Dii and Anjaree: “Women Who Follow Nonconformist Ways”
Jillana Enteen

5. Transcending Sexual Nationalism and Colonialism: Cultural Hybridization as Process of Sexual Politics in '90s Taiwan
Chong Kee Tan

6. Out in Africa
Guarav Desai

7. Queering Lord Clark: Diasporic Formations and Traveling Homophobia in Isaac Julien's The Darker Side of Black
Paige Schilt

8. Broadening Postcolonial Studies/Decolonizing Queer Studies: Emerging “Queer” Identities and Cultures in Southern Africa
William J. Spurlin

9. Global (Sexual) Politics, Class Struggle, and the Queer Left
Donald E. Morton

10. Querying Globalization
J. K. Gibson-Graham

11. Colonial Fantasies and Postcolonial Identities: Elaboration of Postcolonial Masculinity and Homoerotic Desire
Hema Chari

12. By Way of an Afterword
Samir Dayal

Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

Cultural Studies
Lesbian / Gay Studies
Postcolonial Studies

39738/39737(JFB/DG/)

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