Caitlin McClune

E 397N/WGS 393
Fall, Richardson

Annotated Bibliography:

3) Walcott, Rinaldo Outside In Black Studies: Reading From a Queer Place in the
Diaspora Black Queer Studies. Duke University Press: Durham and London 2005.

This chapter seeks to explore what are the consequences, and what might be at stake in
the collision of the black studies project, diaspora studies and queer studies. He argues for
what he calls a diaspora reading practice that destabilizes the centrality of nation in the
black studies project and opens up new possibilities in black queer diaspora studies.
Basing his query in his own investment in the black studies project, Walcott wishes to
interrogate notions of community as they are produced in the black studies project to
break out of nationalistic concerns and limitations.

4) Puar, Jasbir Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in queer times. Duke
University Press, Durham : NC (2007)

In this book, Jasbir attempts to outline how the configurations of sexuality, race, gender,
nation, class, and ethnicity are being reconfigured into narratives of securitization,
counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how certain queer subjects have been
brought into the fold of the nation state through the overturning of sodomy laws, and
the current debates over the right to marriage. Of importance to my research interests is
the reconfiguration of queer bodies as figures of death, particularly in relation to the
HIV/AIDS epidemic, to subjects emblematic of life, such as narratives of gay marriage
and reproductive rights.

5) Epprecht, Marc. Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of
Exploration to AIDS. Ohio University Press. Athens, Ohio: 2008.

In this book Epprecht traces the various routs to which Africa has been reformulated in
mainstream discourses as heterosexual. He points to the ways in which this process has
its legacies in colonization, and the narratives that continue to invoke this history in
current debates over sexual identification or practice in Africa. Epprecht points to
president Mugabes expulsion of the organization GALZ (Gays and Lesbians of
Zimbabwe) from the international book fair and his following speech that denounced
homosexual behavior, equating gays with pigs and dogs. He outlines how discourses
around African nationality have been constructed around heteronormativity based on the
equation of homosexuality with the excess, corruption and violence of colonialism.

6) Patton, Cindy (2000). Migratory Vices Queer Diasporas. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press.

In this chapter Patton points to the ways in which discourses of tourism configure the
disease of AIDS as a story about a virus which shifts to descriptions of bodies capable of
spreading the disease. Examining the historical discourses build around the disease in US
mainstream media she points to both colonial legacies that continue to manifest in these
discourses and the ways in which penetrable boundaries in relation to the disease,
configure into constructions of nationality.

7) Hoad, Neville (2007). African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and
Globalization. Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press.

In this book Hoad examines historical accounts to speculate on cultural practices that
were then classified by missionaries as sodomy. His chapter White Mans Burden,
White Mans Disease: Tracking Lesbian and Gay Human Rights speaks to the
discourses that sought to define Gay and Lesbian Human rights in South Africa. He then
seeks to explore the ways in which the configuration of gay and lesbian human rights has
become a transnational phenomenon though that as they are configured nationally
(specifically in African nations) they are conscripted into notions of threatening
imperialist imports.

8) Appadurai, Arjun Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Theorizing Diaspora (2007) . Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing.

In this seminal essay Appadurai gives a more nuanced description of global flows of
influence through his description of five different imagined world landscapes. Described
as scapes to suggest their capacity for change they include: technoscapes, ethnoscapes,
financescapes, ideoscapes and mediascapes. Appadurai argues that due to the
proliferation of mediated imagery and the speed with which they travel, it is difficult to
emphasize the power of the nation-state. Of importance is Appaduarais emphasis on
theorizing the imagination as a way to understand the current trajectory of diaspora
studies.

9) Manalansan IV, Martin F. In the Shadows of Stonewall: Examining Gay
Transnational Politics and the Diasporic Dilemma Theorizing Diaspora (2007).
Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing.

In this essay, Manalansan argues against a discourse that seeks to posit the Stonewall
Riots as the defining moment in transnational gay and lesbian history. Manalansan
juxtaposes circulating texts about the international gay movement with narratives of
Filipino gay men in NY and the Philippines in order to counter the structuring of Western
understandings of same-sex practices. He seeks instead to focus on local influences of
any given region that shape and affect same-sex articulation.

10) Holland, Sharon Patricia (2000)Death and the Nations Subjects Raising the
Dead :Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity. Durham and London: Duke
University Press.

In this chapter Holland writes of the increase of state power to determine the parameters
of the liminal spaces of death as it is described or illustrated in US fictional narratives
particularly in the spirit depiction of black characters. She locates these liminal spaces as
that which grapple with black subjectivity in the attempts to reconcile with bodies
marked for death and haunted with a history of death. She seeks to point out how such
subjects in fictional accounts function in culture. Further she wishes to point to how black
subjects never fully achieve the status of living in the eyes of others.