A taste for brown bodies : gay modernity and cosmopolitan desire
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781479818655
Description: Facuses on three figures with elusive queer histories--the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy--and shows how each has been desired for their heoric masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for U.S. expansion.
Table of contents: title: The queer afterlife of Billy Budd -- Going to meet the man in Abu Ghraib -- The global taste for queer -- You can have my brown body and eat it, too! -- Gay cowboys close to home.