ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author argues that rendering homosexualities visible on a global scale joins with the other global flows, postcolonial hybridizations, and localized appropriations of an emergent postmodern global order that is simultaneously postnational. Lee Edelman uses the quote as part of his demonstration of homosexuality's capacity to confound the taxonomic and spatial logic that European heterosexual patriarchy uses to map gender and sexuality. The discourses of nationalist geopolitics as well as those of gender and sexuality are structured by metaphors of heterosexist desire. The author utilizes the mainland Chinese critic's geocultural response to The Wedding Banquet and various other fragments of discourse to embark on his own project of preposterous pleasure. He explains the mainland Chinese critic's remarks to trace the relationship between the sight of homosexuality outside Western culture and the logics of cultural difference and the categories that maintain it.
