John C. Hawley is Professor of English at Santa Clara University. He has edited many books including Cross-Addressing: Resistance Literature and Cultural Borders, also published by SUNY Press.

"Finally, the staging of an encounter between queer and postcolonial studies where neither term turns out to be quite distinct from the other and where a new mapping of fields becomes possible. The essays probe the possibility of thinking sexuality in terms of social normativity and globalization, making breakthroughs in several directions at once: history, sociology, literature, psychology. This is the kind of scholarship most needed and most productive: it opens up the question of an encounter through several sites in provocative ways without deciding the final form of the relationship between postcolonial, queer." — Judith Butler, University of California at Berkeley

• Acknowledgments IntroductionJohn C. Hawley 1. Rupture or Continuity? The Internationalization of Gay IdentitiesDennis Altman 2. Vacation Cruises; or, The Homoerotics of OrientalismJoseph Boone 3. Queer Resistance to (Neo-)colonialism in AlgeriaJarrod Hayes 4. Tom, Dii and Anjaree: "Women Who Follow Nonconformist Ways" Jillana Enteen 5. Transcending Sexual Nationalism and Colonialism: Cultural Hybridization as Process of Sexual Politics in '90s TaiwanChong Kee Tan 6. Out in AfricaGuarav Desai 7. Queering Lord Clark: Diasporic Formations and Traveling Homophobia in Isaac Julien's The Darker Side of BlackPaige Schilt 8. Broadening Postcolonial Studies/Decolonizing Queer Studies: Emerging "Queer" Identities and Cultures in Southern AfricaWilliam J. Spurlin 9. Global (Sexual) Politics, Class Struggle, and the Queer LeftDonald E. Morton 10. Querying Globalization J. K. Gibson-Graham 11. Colonial Fantasies and Postcolonial Identities: Elaboration of Postcolonial Masculinity and Homoerotic DesireHema Chari 12. By Way of an AfterwordSamir Dayal Contributors Index