Gopinath / Halberstam / Lowe Impossible Desires

Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8653-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten

Reihe: Perverse Modernities

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gopinath, Gayatri

Halberstam, Judith

Lowe, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gayatri Gopinath is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis.