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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... logic that invariably forms the core of conventional formulations of diaspora . It does so by paying special attention to queer female subjectivity in the diaspora , as it is this particular positionality that forms a con- stitutive ...
... logic . The policies of the Hindu na- tionalist government in India in the mid- to late 1990s to court overseas “ NRI ” ( non - resident Indian ) capital17 is but one example of how diaspora and nation can function together in the ...
... logic . Indeed , while the Bharatiya Janata Party - led Hindu nationalist government in India acknowl- edged the diaspora solely in the form of the prosperous , Hindu , heterosexual NRI businessman , there exists a different embodiment ...
... logic the queer is seen as the debased and inadequate copy of the heterosexual , so too is diaspora within nationalist logic positioned as the queer Other of the nation , its inauthentic imitation . The concept of a queer diaspora ...
... logic of commodification itself . ” 34 In other words , while queer diasporic cultural forms are produced in and through the workings of transnational capitalism , they also provide the means by which to critique the logic of global ...
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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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