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Yet King insists that this dialectical vision is still too limited in analyzing the contemporary world dimensions of sexuality: “there are many ‘globals,’ both kinds and layers of, and many ‘locals,’ places, particularisms and conceptualizations. ” In a world of such dizzying complexity, “the productive instability of the term Queer” can be read as a code word for truth. The final Part, “Cultural Studies and the Accommodation of Postcolonialism,” addresses some of the dangers and possibilities of postcolonial studies as it attains the professional integrity of an academic discipline but resists the disciplinary and regional fragmentation mentioned earlier.

Anthony Alessandrini shows us how the theoretical paradigm first opened by Fanon, writing from within the Algerian movement for national independence in the early 1960s, is transformed for a US context radically different than the one in which Fanon wrote. In a somewhat similar vein, the essay on Bhabha and Spivak illustrates one of Said’s central arguments about “travelling theory”: both scholars, raised and educated in very different contexts in India, traveled to the West for advanced degrees and encountered extremely rarified theoretical atmospheres.

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