Gayatri Gopinath

Impossible Desires

Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues for the uses of queer, feminist transnational theory in order to understanding South Asian and South Asian diasporic identities and cultural production.

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Produktdetails

• Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 162mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335139
• ISBN-10: 0822335131
• Artikelnr.: 22473505

Autorenporträt

Gayatri Gopinath

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
1. Impossible Desires: An Introduction 1
2. Communities of Sound: Queering South Asian Popular Music in the Diaspora
29
3. Surviving Naipaul: Housing Masculinity in A House for Mr. Biswas,
Surviving Sabu, and East Is East 63
4. Bollywood/Hollywood: Queer Cinematic Representation and the Perils of
Translation 93
5. Local Sites/Global Contexts: The Transnational Trajectories of Fire and
"The Quilt" 131
6. Nostalgia, Desire, and Diaspora: Funny Boy and Cereus Blooms at Night
161
7. Epilogue: Queer Homes in Diaspora 187
Notes 195
Bibliography 221
Filmography 235
Index 237