Melville's peep-show, or, Sexual and textual cruises in Typee -- Primitivism and homosexuality : the search for the "natural" in Charles Warren Stoddard's Travel sketches -- "Closer than blood-brothership" : male homosocial attachment in Jack London's Tales of the South Pacific -- Roman holiday : discourses of travel and eroticism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marble faun -- Savage America, civilized England : counterdiscourses and fluid identities in William Wells Brown's Sketches of places and people abroad -- "Harems and ceremonies" : Edith Wharton In Morocco -- Why go abroad? : Djuna Barnes explores New York -- Carl Van Vechten's sexual tourism in Jazz Age Harlem -- Going home? : questions of belonging and sexualized space in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem.