Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 221 Seiten).
Edition:
2nd printing
ISBN:
9780822385172
Series Statement:
Perverse modernities
Content:
A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay identity is not teleological but fraught with fissures, Martin Manalansan IV describes how Filipino gay immigrants, like many queers of color, are creating alternative paths to queer modernity and citizenship. He makes a compelling argument for the significance of diaspora and immigration as sites for investigating the complexities of gender, race, and sexuality. Manalansan locates diasporic, transnational, and global dimensions of gay and other queer identities within a framework of quotidian struggles ranging from everyday domesticity to public engagements with racialized and gendered images to life-threatening situations involving AIDS. He reveals the gritty, mundane, and often contradictory deeds and utterances of Filipino gay men as key elements of queer globalization and transnationalism.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 0-8223-3217-5
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 0-8223-3204-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
