1st Edition
Virtual English Queer Internets and Digital Creolization
1. Introduction: Life Skills
2. Booting up: The Languages of Computer Technologies
3. "On the Receiving End of the Colonization": Nalo Hopkinson’s ‘Nansi Web
4. Configuring a Nation
5. Mixing Up Siam
6. Bangkok Boyonthenet.com
Epilogue: The Medium Messages
Biography
Jillana Enteen is Associate Director and Director of the Undergraduate Studies Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University, where she has taught courses in New Media Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies, Queer Theory and Asian Literature in Diaspora.
"The interdisciplinary structure of the book is exemplary, as Enteen weaves together linguistic and political histories; theories of globalization, language and linguistic contact, and colonialism and its effects; gender and sexuality studies; speculative fiction; ethnographic research; and analysis of computer-mediated communication. The result is a unique articulation of critical perspectives and creative production, which is particularly illuminating on possibilities for cross-cultural contact and dialogue within new media …"
—Thomas Foster, University of Washington
