Queer Desire on the Move: Resistance to Homoglobalization in World Literature in French

Jarrod Hayes In the late 1990s, several conferences and, then, anthologies were devoted to the relation between globalization and homosexuality, representing not just a global turn in LGBTQ studies but also the ongoing queering of postcolonial theory. In this chapter, I would like to consider a connection between the debates that these conferences elicited and the recent phenomenon within “Francophone” studies that has consisted in a rejection of the very term “Francophone” — with its implied ghettoization, according to the proponents of this rejection — in favor of a littérature-monde. To do so, I will look at examples of writings by queers, queer writing, and even the queer in writings by the not-so-queer from Québec, Africa, and the Caribbean to provide an overview of the intersection between World Literature in French, on the one hand, and sexuality studies, on the other; to explore the tension between the globalizing tendencies of Western homosexuality...