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In this tenth anniversary expanded edition of Jasbir K. Puar’s pathbreaking book—which features a new preface by Tavia Nyong’o and a new postscript by the author—Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism.
List of contents
Foreword / Tavia Nyong'o xi
Preface: Tactics, Strategies, Logistics xvii
Introduction: Homonationalism and Biopolitics 1
1. The Sexuality of Terrorism 37
2. Abu Ghraib and U.S. Sexual Exceptionalism 79
3. Intimate Control, Infinite Direction: Rereading the Lawrence Case 114
4. "The Turban is Not a Hat": Queer Diaspora and the Practices for Profiling 166
Conclusion: Queer Times, Terrorist Assemblages 203
Postscript: Homonationalism in Trump Times 223
Acknowledgments 243
Notes 249
References 307
Index 342
About the author
Jasbir K. Puar is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the author of The Right to Maim, also published by Duke University Press.
Tavia Nyong’o is Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and Theater Studies at Yale University and the author of The Amalgamation Waltz.
Summary
In this tenth anniversary expanded edition of Jasbir K. Puar’s pathbreaking book—which features a new preface by Tavia Nyong’o and a new postscript by the author—Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism.
