Books in the Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe series

Argues for the uses of queer, feminist transnational theory in order to understanding South Asian and South Asian diasporic identities and cultural production.

Offers an analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. This book argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of US imperialist expansion, Cold War neo-colonial military presence, and economic influence in Asia.

Contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anti-capitalist Black liberation movements based in the United States. The author finds hidden within the histories and logics generated by US-based struggles against racism, sexism, and homophobia, the Black femme's invisible, affective labour.

This exploration of the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers reveals in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women.