Rahul K. Gairola

Homelandings

Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging

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Produktbeschreibung

A critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge and re-shape exclusive formulations of 'home' and 'homeland' rooted in racist and heteronormative practices spread by transatlantic neoliberalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781783489732
• ISBN-10: 1783489731
• Artikelnr.: 44678356

Autorenporträt

Rahul K. Gairola is Assistant Professor of English & Comparative Literature in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He is an Article Editor for Postcolonial Text, and co-editor of Revisiting India's Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics (Lexington Books, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Prologue: History as Home Base
1. Home, Queer Home: Postcolonial Belonging in the Transatlantic Anglosphere
2. Between Homes: Western Education and Transgressions of Disciplinary Gender Roles in Michelle Cliff's Abeng
3. Capitalist Houses, Queer Homes: Sexuality & Belonging in Hanif Kureishi's and Stephen Frears's My Beautiful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
4. Homesick for Future Revolution: Heteronormative Lifestyles and Queer Heterotopias in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters
5. Home is Where the Heart Writes: Race, Media, Masculinity, and the Market in Jackie Kay's Trumpet
Epilogue: Broken Homes and Insecure Homelands
Index