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Global Divas

Global Divas

Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora

by Martin F. Manalansan
Paperback
Publication Date: 10/12/2003

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A lively 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 fractures and fissures, Martin Manalansan describes how Filipino gay immigrants, like many queers of colour, are creating alternative paths to queer modernity and citizenship. In "Global Divas", 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.
Through careful and sensitive analysis of these men's lives and rituals, he demonstrates that gay identity is not merely a consumable transnational product or lifestyle. It is, he explains, one pivotal element in the multiple, shifting transnational relationships queer immigrants of colour mobilize in confronting the tribulations of a globalizing world.
ISBN:
9780822332176
9780822332176
Category:
Gay studies (Gay men)
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
10-12-2003
Language:
English
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
235x149x19mm
Weight:
0.34kg

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