""The Gay Archipelago" is a landmark book, both for studies of
Indonesia and for studies of comparative sexualities. Tom
Boellstorff manages to integrate grounded narratives of personal
experience in larger theoretical notions of identity and nation,
and in so doing to develop perhaps the most sophisticated case
study yet written of the ways in which sexual subjectivities
reflect, and help shape, national identity."--Dennis Altman, author
of "Global Sex" and "Gore Vidal's America"
""The Gay Archipelago" is a landmark work. Boellstorff applies
an acute ethnographic intelligence to the lives of Indonesians with
same-gender desires, raising unsettling questions about the ways in
which anthropology remains invested in "difference." Boellstorff's
compelling analysis greatly enriches our sense of how images
circulate, and communities are re-imagined, at the point where the
global meets the postcolonial."--Jean Comaroff, University of
Chicago
""The Gay Archipelago" is an important work that inaugurates a
new stage in critical comparative queer studies and Southeast Asian
anthropology. Far from offering a typical ethnography of gay and
lesbian people in a nonwestern 'elsewhere, ' Tom Boellstorff
provides a richly woven and vigorously argued theoretical and
empirical treatise on emerging subjectivities in the nonwest,
including Indonesia. His book is admirably ambitious in scale and
scope by trying to understand not only Indonesian lesbi and gay
peoples but also other sexual/gender systems and formations. While
most anthropologists focus either on 'men' or 'women, ' he
valiantly and successfully pulls together the multiple strands of
analysis and data on queer 'men' and 'women' as part ofthe national
imaginary. Through trenchant yet nuanced arguments, he argues for a
framework that does not fetishize difference or depend on Western
self-awareness and modes of agency."--Martin F. Manalansan IV,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, author of "Global Divas:
Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora"
"This exciting book represents an original and path-breaking
contribution to the contemporary cross-cultural literature on
sexuality and gender: first, in the subtle and searching way it
conceives the relation between Western and Indonesian sexualities
and genders; and, second, in its outstanding approach to perennial
problems in theorizing gender and sexuality and their contested
relation."--Margaret Jolly, Australian National University,
coeditor of "Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in
Asia and the Pacific"
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