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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... relation to the past that characterizes a conservative diasporic imagi- nary . This relation is one where the experience of displacement " gives rise to a certain imaginary plenitude , recreating the endless desire to return to ' lost ...
... relation between fathers and sons serves as a central and recurring feature within diasporic narratives and becomes a metaphor for the contradictions of sameness and difference that , as Stuart Hall has shown , characterize competing ...
... relations and sidelines female subjectivity . This book , then , begins where Kureishi's text leaves off . Impossible Desires examines a range of South Asian diasporic literature , film , and music in order to ask if we can imagine ...
... relation between nation and diaspora , where the former is seen as merely an im- poverished imitation of an originary national culture.15 Yet the antiessentialist notion of cultural identity that is at the core of this revised framing ...
... relation between diasporic culture and globalization one that is mediated through dominant gender and sexual ide- ologies . Feminist theorists have astutely observed that globalization profoundly shapes , transforms , and exploits 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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