Queer Globalizations : Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism

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. Author Biography: 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 CulturalCompass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America and author of Diasporic Divas/Global Deviants . The Wily Homosexual (first--and Necessarily Hasty--notes) / Silviano Santiago -- Dissident Globalizations, Emancipatory Methods, Social Erotics / Chela Sandoval -- There Are No Lesbians Here : Lesbianisms, Feminisms, And Global Gay Formations / Katie King -- Can Homosexuals End Western Civilization As We Know It? Family Values In A Global Economy / Janet R. Jakobsen -- Family Affairs : The Discourse Of Global/localization / Miranda Joseph -- Redecorating The International Economy : Keynes, Grant, And The Queering Of Bretton Woods / Bill Maurer -- Consuming Lifestyle : Commodity Capitalism And Transformations In Gay Identity / Ann Pellegrini -- Local Sites/global Contexts : The Transnational Trajectories Of Deepa Mehta's Fire / Gayatri Gopinath -- Dancing La Vida Loca : The Queer Nuyorican Performances Of Arthur Avilés And Elizabeth Marrero / Lawrence M. La Fountain-stokes -- Syncretic Religion And Dissident Sexualities / Roberto Strongman -- Stealth Bombers Of Desire : The Globalization Of Alterity In Emerging Democracies / Cindy Patton -- Strangers On A Train : Sexual Citizenship And The Politics Of Public Transportation In Apartheid Cape Town / William L. Leap -- 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) / Joseba Gabilondo. Edited By Arnaldo Cruz-malavé And Martin F. Manalansan Iv. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Scholars of postcolonial and LGBT studies examine the validity of the globalization of queer culturesGlobalization 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. The wily homosexual (first and necessarily hasty notes) / Silviano Santiago. Dissident globalizations, emancipatory methods, social erotics / Chela Sandoval. "There are no lesbians here" : lesbianisms, feminisms, and global gay formations / Katie King Can homosexuals end western civilization as we know it? Family values in a global economy / Janet R. Jakobsen. Family affairs : the discourse of global/localization / Miranda Joseph. Redecorating the international economy : Keynes, Grant, and the queering of Bretton Woods / Bill Maurer. Consuming lifestyle : commodity capitalism and transformations in gay identity / Ann Pellegrini. Local sites/global contexts : the transnational trajectories of Deepa Mehta's Fire / Gayatri Gopinath. Dancing La vida loca : the queer Nuyorican performances of Arthur Avilés and Elizabeth Marrero / Lawrence M. La Fountain-Stokes. Syncretic religion and dissident sexualities / Roberto Strongman Stealth bombers of desire : the globalization of "alterity" in emerging democracies / Cindy Patton. "Strangers on a train" : sexual citizenship and the politics of public transportation in apartheid Cape Town / William L. Leap. 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) / Joseba Gabilondo. "Intellectual and political project." Signs 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. The essays in this volume 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