Contents
Preface ix
Note on cover art xi
Introduction
ANDREW PARKER, MARY RUSSO, DORIS SOMMER,
and PATRICIA YAEGER 1
Part I (Decolonizing Gender
1. Don (Juanito) Duck and the Imperial-Patriarchal Unconscious:
Disney Studios, the Good Neighbor Policy, and the Packaging
of Latin America
JULIANNE BURTON 2 1
2. Misgendering the Nation: African Nationalist Fictions and
Nuruddin Farah’s Maps
RHONDA COBHAM 4 2
3. Bradford’s “Ancient Members” and “A Case of Buggery . . .
Amongst Them”
JONATHAN GOLDBERG
4. Nationalism, Gender, and the Narrative of Identity
R. RADHAKRISHNAN 77
5. Woman in Difference: Mahasweta Devi’s
“Douloti the Bountiful”
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK 96
P art II Tailoring th e N ation
6. The Occidental Tourist: M. Butterfly and the Scandal
of Transvestism
MARJORIE GARBER 121
7. Fashioning Cuba
NORMAN S. HOLLAND 147
8. Dismantling Irena: The Sexualizing of Ireland in Early
Modem England
ANN ROSALIND JONES and PETER STALLYBRASS 157
P a rt III The O ther C ountry
9. Plague in Germany, 1939/1989: Cultural Images of Race,
Space, and Disease
SANDER L. GILMAN 175
10. “White Slavery,” Citizenship and Nationality in Argentina
DONNA J. GUY 201
11. From Nation to Family: Containing “African AIDS”
CINDY PATTON 218
12. Nationalisms and Sexualities in the Age of Wilde
EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK 235
13. Revolution Must Come First: Reading V. Aksenov’s
Island of Crimea
GRETA N. SLOBIN 246
P art IV Spectacular B odies
14. Tearooms and Sympathy, or, The Epistemology of the
Water Closet
LEE EDELMAN 263
15. Lovers and Workers: Screening the Body in Post-Communist
Hungarian Cinema
CATHERINE PORTUGES
16. From Foreground to Margin: Female Configuration and
Masculine Self-Representation in Black Nationalist Fiction
JOYCE HOPE SCOTT 296
17. The Parricidal Phantasm: Irish Nationalism and the
Playboy Riots
STEPHEN TIFFT 313
Part V “To Govern Is to Populate”
18. Some Speculations on the History of “Sexual Intercourse”
During the “Long Eighteenth Century” in England
HENRY ABELOVE 335
19. State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality and
Race in Singapore
GERALDINE HENG and JANADAS DEVAN 343
20. From Rough Lads to Hooligans: Boy Life, National Culture
and Social Reform
SETH KOVEN 365
Part VI Women, Resistance and the State
21. Indian Nationalism, Gandhian “Satyagraha,” and Representations
of Female Sexuality
KETU H. KATRAK 395
22. Telling Spaces: Palestinian Women and the Engendering of
National Narratives
MARY LAYOUN 407
23. Revolution, Islam and Women: Sexual Politics in
Iran and Afghanistan
VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM 424
Contributors