Impossible Desires - Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures

Informationen zum Autor Gayatri Gopinath Klappentext "Boldly spanning Hindi film, British Asian music, Urdu literature, diasporic postcolonial literature and film, U.S. queer activism, and feminist politics, Gayatri Gopinath argues that queer desire becomes central to the ways in which national and diasporic histories are told when the erotics of power is acknowledged. "Impossible Desires" is a deft demonstration of both queer theory's dominant ethnocentrism and diaspora and postcolonial studies' heteronormativity and androcentrism."--Ranjana Khanna, author of "Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism" Zusammenfassung Argues for the uses of queer! feminist transnational theory in order to understanding South Asian and South Asian diasporic identities and cultural production. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix 1. Impossible Desires: An Introduction 1 2. Communities of Sound: Queering South Asian Popular Music in the Diaspora 29 3. Surviving Naipaul: Housing Masculinity in A House for Mr. Biswas, Surviving Sabu, and East Is East 63 4. Bollywood/Hollywood: Queer Cinematic Representation and the Perils of Translation 93 5. Local Sites/Global Contexts: The Transnational Trajectories of Fire and "The Quilt" 131 6. Nostalgia, Desire, and Diaspora: Funny Boy and Cereus Blooms at Night 161 7. Epilogue: Queer Homes in Diaspora 187 Notes 195 Bibliography 221 Filmography 235 Index 237

Product details

• Authors: Gayatri Gopinath, Gopinath, Gayatri Gopinath
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2005
• EAN: 9780822335016
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3501-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories