""Queer Diasporas "is one of the first books to bring together the concerns of American queer studies with perspectives generated by cross-national, culturally comparative scholarship. This collection is unusual and varied."--Marilyn Ivy, Columbia University

Cindy Patton and Benigno Sánchez-Eppler, eds.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: With a Passport Out of Eden / Benigno Sánchez-Eppler and Cindy Patton
Migratory Vices / Cindy Patton
Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan / Jennifer Robertson
Outing Freud’s Zionism, or, the Bitextuality of the Diaspora Jew / Daniel Boyarin
Of Queens and Castanets: Hispanidad, Orientalism, and Sexual Difference / Sylvia Molloy
Jekyll and Claude: The Erotics of Patronage in Claude McKay’s Banana Bottom / Rhonda Cobham
Reinaldo Arenas, Re-writer Revenant, and the Re-patriation of Cuban Homoerotic Desire / Benigno Sánchez-Eppler
Diasporic Deviants/Divas: How Filipino Gay Transmigrants “Play with the World” / Martin F. Manalansan IV
Queer Urbanites: A Walk on the Wild Side / Michèle Aina Barale
Sexing the Kitchen: Okoge and Other Tales of Contemporary Japan / Sandra Buckley
“How Did I Get So Anal?”: Queer Self-Authorization at the Margins / Marcie Frank
Queer in Israel “Walid” collected by Jacob Press and Amir Sumaka’i Fink
Works Cited
Index
Contributors