Homelandings - Postcolonial Diasposras and Transatlantic Belonging

Informationen zum Autor Rahul K. Gairola is Assistant Professor of English & Comparative Literature in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He is an Article Editor for Postcolonial Text, and co-editor of Revisiting India's Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics (Lexington Books, 2016). Klappentext A critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge and re-shape exclusive formulations of 'home' and 'homeland' rooted in racist and heteronormative practices spread by transatlantic neoliberalism. Zusammenfassung A critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge and re-shape exclusive formulations of ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ rooted in racist and heteronormative practices spread by transatlantic neoliberalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Dedication / Acknowledgements / Prologue: History as Home Base / 1. Home, Queer Home: Postcolonial Belonging in the Transatlantic Anglosphere / 2. Between Homes: Western Education and Transgressions of Disciplinary Gender Roles in Michelle Cliff's Abeng / 3. Capitalist Houses, Queer Homes: Sexuality & Belonging in Hanif Kureishi's and Stephen Frears's My Beautiful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid / 4. Homesick for Future Revolution: Heteronormative Lifestyles and Queer Heterotopias in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters / 5. Home is Where the Heart Writes: Race, Media, Masculinity, and the Market in Jackie Kay's Trumpet / Epilogue: Broken Homes and Insecure Homelands / Index

Product details

• Authors: Rahul K. Gairola, Gairola Rahul K.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.09.2016
• EAN: 9781783489732
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-973-2
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples