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Contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anti-capitalist Black liberation movements based in the United States. The author finds hidden within the histories and logics generated by US-based struggles against racism, sexism, and homophobia, the Black femme's invisible, affective labour.
Argues for the centrality of theatre and performance in the American national imaginary
Drawing from ethnographic work with queer activist groups in contemporary Turkey, Evren Savci explores how Western LGBT politics are translated and reworked there in ways that generate new spaces for resistance and solidarity.
Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which the wild-a space located beyond normative borders of sexuality-offers sources of opposition to knowing and being that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern subject.
The Sense of Brown, which he was completing at the time of his death, is Jose Esteban Munoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies.
Contributors of this volume offer interdisciplinary analyses of non-normative sexuality and gender nonconformity in Korea, extending individualized notions of queer neoliberalism beyond those set in Western queer theory.
Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives about traveling for gender reassignment from 1952 to the present, showing how transgender fantasies about reinvention and mobility are racialized as white and often rely on violent colonial global divisions.
Gil Z. Hochberg examines films, photography, painting and literature by Israeli and Palestinian artists. Israel's greater ability to control what can be seen, how, and from what position drives the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The artists Hochberg studies challenge Israel's visual and social dominance by creating new ways to see the conflict.
Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production-from the earliest appearance of Frankenstein in China to the more recent phenomenon of "cadaver art"- to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary life.
Rather than using displays of masculinity to counter portrayals of Asian American men as passive and effeminate, Nguyen Tan Hoang develops a concept of bottomhood that opens up political alliances based on risk, vulnerability, and receptiveness.
Considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of transformistas and beauty pageant contestants.
A historical and ethnographic account of how LGBT activism for safe neighborhoods inadvertently dovetailed with and reinforced anticrime measures harmful to the poor and people of color.
A collection of essays analyzing the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or strange affinities, afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations.
A collection of essays analyzing the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or strange affinities, afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations.
A groundbreaking ethnography on race, desire, and belonging among black Cubans in the early twenty-first-century
This exploration of the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers reveals in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women.
Christina Sharpe interprets Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that grapple with the sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation, and their present-day legacies.
Offers an analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. This book argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of US imperialist expansion, Cold War neo-colonial military presence, and economic influence in Asia.
Argues for the uses of queer, feminist transnational theory in order to understanding South Asian and South Asian diasporic identities and cultural production.
Presents an ethnography of Filipino gay men in New York that explores their sexual and national identities. This book challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity.
Bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory and explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. This title examines images - literary, visual, and filmic - that configure past and contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.
Contributors of this volume offer interdisciplinary analyses of non-normative sexuality and gender nonconformity in Korea, extending individualized notions of queer neoliberalism beyond those set in Western queer theory.
In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Roman Mendoza shows how America's imperial incursions into the Philippines fostered social and sexual intimacies between Americans and native Filipinos, that along with representations of Filipinos as sexually degenerate, were crucial to regulating both colonial subjects and gender norms at home.
Explores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity.
Examines the roles of mobility and immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of political spaces.
Gayatri Gopinath traces the interrelation of affect, aesthetics, and diaspora through an exploration of a wide range of contemporary queer visual cultural forms by South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Australian, and Latinx artists such as Tracey Moffatt, Akram Zaatari, and Allan deSouza.
A collection of essays by Alexander addressing the implications of transnational thinking for our understanding of gender, sex, sexuality, and race
Mel Y. Chen draws on studies of sexuality, race, and affect to consider how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, deathly, or otherwise "wrong," animates cultural life in important ways.
An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison.
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