Global divas : Filipino gay men in the diaspora / Martin F. Manalansan.
Global divas : Filipino gay men in the diaspora / Martin F. Manalansan.
Global divas : Filipino gay men in the diaspora / Martin F. Manalansan.
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Publisher
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2003.
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Date
2003.
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Language
English
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Physical content
1 online resource (239 pages)
Content type
text
Media type
computer
Carrier type
online resource
Contents
The borders between bakla and gay -- Speaking in transit : queer language and translated lives -- "Out there" : the topography of race and desire in the global city -- The biyuti and drama of everyday life -- "To play with the world" : the pageantry of identities -- Tita Aida : intimate geographies...
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Publisher
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2003.
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Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
2003.
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Summary
An ethnography of Filipino gay men in New York that explores their sexual and national identities.
A vivid 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 fissur...
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Global divas : Filipino gay men in the diaspora / Martin F. Manalansan.
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Perverse modernities
"A John Hope Franklin Center book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
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0822332043
0822332175
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Awards
Ruth Benedict Prize (won), 2003
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74VK3y72VwVO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3y72VwVO
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ISBN
0-8223-8517-1
1-282-92090-1
DDC
305.38/9664/09599
MMS ID
991023912633102626
