A study of two Hong Kong independent queer auteurs, Scud and Kit Hung, and how their autobiographical films blur the line between the real and the unreal. The chapter argues that both directors move past a straightforward "gay film" label — Scud's Amphetamine (2010) unsettles viewer expectations, while Hung's Soundless Wind Chime (2009) uses slowness and intertextuality to position him within a wider Sinophone cinematic tradition.

A chapter on Zhang Yuan's East Palace, West Palace (1996), the first mainland Chinese film to portray homosexuality openly, read through the volume's broader inquiry into how European colonial history continues to shape ideas of identity, geopolitics and difference within and beyond Europe.

The co-authored introduction sets out the volume's central questions: how European identity has been shaped by its colonial empires, how that history continues to inform ideas of Europe today, and how coloniality has produced geopolitical differences across the continent — framing the interdisciplinary chapters that follow.

An essay arguing that Lawrence Scott's 1998 novel Aelred's Sin sits at the intersection of queer and diaspora studies, using writing itself as a means of homosexual recognition. The chapter contends that Scott's Caribbean narrative destabilises spatial boundaries, letting mobility and local historicity unsettle wider debates in queer diaspora scholarship.

A reading of Jamaica Kincaid's travel and garden writing — including A Small Place and My Garden (Book): — through the recurring motifs of curiosity and displacement, tracing how her horticultural imagery engages colonial histories of botany, tourism and loss.