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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Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures Gayatri Gopinath. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book is about home , and I ... South Asian progressive activism in New York City in the late 1980s and 1990s . I feel privileged to have been part of a ...
Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures Gayatri Gopinath. thanks to Courtney Berger and Kate Lothman for shepherding the manuscript through its final stages , and to Kara Thompson for so skillfully and efficiently creating the ...
Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures Gayatri Gopinath. and the more immediate history of Powellian racism in 1960s Britain.1 In his memory of having seen Johnny march ( “ we saw you ” ) , Omar in a sense re- verses the ...
Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures Gayatri Gopinath. POWDERS of Twenty years later , Kureishi's film remains a remarkably powerful rendering queer racialized desire and its relation to memory and history , and acts as a ...
Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures Gayatri Gopinath. These etymological traces of the term are apparent in Kureishi's vision of queer diasporic subjectivity that centralizes male - male relations and sidelines female ...
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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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