From Sleepless in Seattle to I Seoul You: Korean Gay Men and Cross-cultural Encounters in Transnational Times

by Patrick Thomsen, Patrick Thomsen (Editor)

Overview

How might a Sāmoan diasporic lens broaden our understanding of queer worlds?

Queer worlds are often theorized using Western frameworks of knowledge systems and power. In this book, queer author and researcher Seutaʻafili Patrick Thomsen brings diversity to the discourse, by exploring the stories of Korean gay men in and between Seoul in Korea and Seattle in the US. Drawn from lived experience and the author's use of talanoa (Pacific research methodology), the book centres transnational, migrant and racialized realities - so contributing to the complication of West-centric ideas of gayness and coming out.

Looking at the intersections of race, globalization, diaspora, religion and queer identity, these stories add richness and complexity to the field of Queer and LGBT+ Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781915271242
Publisher:	Lived Places Publishing
Publication date:	03/22/2023
Series:	Queer and Lgbt+ Studies
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Seutaʻafili Patrick Thomsen PhD (he/they) is a Senior Lecturer in Global Studies at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Patrick is a proud faʻafafine and queer Sāmoan scholar, educator, and researcher, having received his doctorate from the University of Washington in Seattle. As an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary scholar, his research interests straddle the lines between queer and LGBT+ Studies, intersectionality, critical race theory, Pacific knowledges, transnationalism, and Korean studies.

Seutaʻafili Patrick Thomsen PhD (he/they) is a Senior Lecturer in Global Studies at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Patrick is a proud faʻafafine and queer Sāmoan scholar, educator, and researcher, having received his doctorate from the University of Washington in Seattle. As an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary scholar, his research interests straddle the lines between queer and LGBT+ Studies, intersectionality, critical race theory, Pacific knowledges, transnationalism, and Korean studies.