Impossible Desires : Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures


Gayatri. Gopinath
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
North Carolina : : Duke University Press, , 2005.
Omfang
1 online resource (263 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Impossible Desires: An Introduction; 2. Communities of Sound: Queering South Asian Popular Music in the Diaspora; 3. Surviving Naipaul: Housing Masculinity in ""A House for Mr. Biswas, Surviving Sabu"", and ""East Is East""; 4. Bollywood/Hollywood: Queer Cinematic Representation and the Perils of Translation; 5. Local Sites/Global Contexts: The Transnational Trajectories of ""Fire"" and ""The Quilt""; 6. Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: ""Funny Boy"" and ""Cereus Blooks at Night""; 7. Epilogue: Queer Homes in Diaspora; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index. - 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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ISBN
0822335018. - 0822335131

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