![]() ![]() Writing from the point of view of marginal, ethnic minority, and/or counter-cultural individuals, Schulman both laments the way in which people are abandoned by their families for their sexual choices and celebrates the creativity of people's survival strategies in the cultural margins. ![]() Since her debut novel, The Sophie Horowitz Story, published in 1984, Schulman has mapped contemporary sexual politics, in particular the impact of the AIDS crisis, in the context of American capitalism and imperialism. According to Gayatri Gopinath, ‘The concept of a queer diaspora enables a simultaneous critique of heterosexuality and the nation form while exploding the binary opposition between nation and diaspora, heterosexuality, original and copy’ (p. ![]() This essay considers the usefulness of the concept of ‘queer diaspora’ in relation to the work of US lesbian writer Sarah Schulman. ![]()
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