Chapter 11: Web of Impunities: Narratives
of Violence and Empire Building
in Central American Literature
Ana Patricia Rodríguez

217

Part IV:
Queering Empire

239

Chapter 12: Morbid Symptoms: Imperialism,
Desire, and Joseph Conrad’sNostromo
Patrick Robert Mullen

241

Chapter 13: The Role of Sexuality in Nation Building:
Shyam Selvadurai’sFunny Boyand
Timothy Mo’sThe Redundancy of Courage
John C. Hawley

273

Chapter 14: The United States of Empire
and the Coalition of the Willing Queer
Paul Allatson

295

Notes

317

Notes on Contributors

339

Index

345