""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

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

Cindy Patton is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. She is the author of numerous books, including Inventing AIDS and Fatal Advice, also published by Duke University Press.

Benigno Sánchez-Eppler is an Independent Scholar living in Amherst, Massachusetts.