Published in 2016, Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family Tree by Jarrod Hayes is nonfiction academic book, a “comparative study in Queer diaspora studies.”
Jarrod Hayes received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York in 1996. Much of his research focuses on the intersection between French postcolonial studies and Queer theory. His first book was Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb. Hayes is also the co-editor, along with Margaret R. Higonnet and William J. Spurlin, of Comparatively Queer: Interrogating Identities across Time and Cultures.
[This book] takes as its primary object of study this desire for rooted identity—a desire to find and become one with one’s roots—as well as the problems that inevitably arise when one sets out on such a journey.
From the Introduction
As the text is rooted in Poststructuralism and Queer Studies, Hayes leans heavily on the theoretical writing of Jacques Derrida. For those interested in the Armenian Diaspora, he examines it in chapter five through an analysis of the films of Atom Egoyan.
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ISBN: 978-0-472-05316-2. Published by the University of Michigan Press.
