Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public CulturesDuke University Press, 19.04.2005 - 262 Seiten By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She examines South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music in order to suggest alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations. Her agile readings challenge nationalist ideologies by bringing to light that which has been rendered illegible or impossible within diaspora: the impure, inauthentic, and nonreproductive. Gopinath juxtaposes diverse texts to indicate the range of oppositional practices, subjectivities, and visions of collectivity that fall outside not only mainstream narratives of diaspora, colonialism, and nationalism but also most projects of liberal feminism and gay and lesbian politics and theory. She considers British Asian music of the 1990s alongside alternative media and cultural practices. Among the fictional works she discusses are V. S. Naipaul’s classic novel A House for Mr. Biswas, Ismat Chughtai’s short story “The Quilt,” Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy, and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night. Analyzing films including Deepa Mehta’s controversial Fire and Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding, she pays particular attention to how South Asian diasporic feminist filmmakers have reworked Bollywood’s strategies of queer representation and to what is lost or gained in this process of translation. Gopinath’s readings are dazzling, and her theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching. |
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... racialized body becomes a historical archive for both individuals and communities , one that is excavated through the very act of desiring the racial Other . For Omar , desiring Johnny is irrevocably intertwined with the legacies of ...
... racialized desire and its relation to memory and history , and acts as a touchstone and precursor to much of the queer South Asian diasporic cultural production that I discuss in Impossible Desires . The texts I consider in this book ...
... racialized male subjects , the process whereby the little boy learns to identify with the father and desire the mother is disrupted and disturbed by the ( black ) father's lack of access to social power.11 Fanon's analysis , which I ...
... racialization of South Asians in the United States was strikingly different . Vijay Prashad has pointed out how the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act , which shifted the criteria for U.S. citizenship from a quota system to “ family ...
... racialized migrant sub- jects , “ staying put ” becomes a way of remaining within the oppressive struc- tures of the home - as domestic space , racialized 14 Chapter One.
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Queering South Asian Popular Music in the Diaspora | 29 |
Housing Masculinity in A House for Mr Biswas Surviving Sabu and East Is East | 63 |
Queer Cinematic Representation and the Perils of Translation | 93 |
The Transnational Trajectories of Fire and The Quilt | 131 |
Funny Boy and Cereus Blooks at Night | 161 |
Queer Homes in Diaspora | 187 |
Notes | 195 |
Bibliography | 221 |
Filmography | 235 |
Index | 237 |
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