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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... labor to British colonies such as Fiji , Trinidad , and Guyana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; and the second a result of the workings of " late modern capital " in the mid- to late twentieth century ...
... labor diasporas , colonial capitalism also produced what Kamala Visweswaran terms a “ middle- man minority ” that served the interests of the colonial power and acted as a conduit between British colonial administrators and the ...
... labor market along gendered , racial , and national lines , how dis- courses of sexuality in the diaspora intersect with , and are in turn shaped by , globalization is only beginning to be explored.30 Furthermore , the impact of ...
... labor . Second , queer diaspora contests the logic that situates the terms “ queer ” and " diaspora " as dependent on the originality of “ heterosexuality ” and “ nation . ” Finally , it disorganizes the dominant categories within the ...
... labor to transform it . Historian Antoinette Burton writes of how , in the memoirs of elite women writers in late - colonial India , the “ home ” itself becomes an archive , a dwelling - place of a critical history rather than the ...
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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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