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Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
Gayatri Gopinath
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Description for Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
Paperback. Argues for the uses of queer, feminist transnational theory in order to understanding South Asian and South Asian diasporic identities and cultural production. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Condition
New
Weight
367 g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822335139
SKU
V9780822335139
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About Gayatri Gopinath
Gayatri Gopinath is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis.
Reviews for Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
“Boldly spanning Hindi film, British Asian music, Urdu literature, diasporic postcolonial literature and film, U.S. queer activism, and feminist politics, Gayatri Gopinath argues that queer desire becomes central to the ways in which national and diasporic histories are told when the erotics of power is acknowledged. Impossible Desires is a deft demonstration of both queer theory’s dominant ethnocentrism and diaspora ... Read more