Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index.
Contents
Melville's peep-show, or, Sexual and textual cruises in Typee -- Primitivism and homosexuality : the search for the "natural" in Charles Warren Stoddard's Travel sketches -- Closer than blood-brothership : Male homosocial attachment in Jack London's Tales of the South Pacific -- Roman holiday : discourses of travel and eroticism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The marble faun -- Savage America, civilised England : counter discourses and fluid identities in William Wells Brown's Sketches of places and people abroad -- Harems and ceremonies : Edith Wharton In Morocco -- Why go abroad? : Djuna Barnes explores New York -- Carl Van Vechten's sexual tourism in Jazz Age Harlem -- Going home? : questions of belonging and sexualised space in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem.
