Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures

Gayatri Gopinath

Published by Duke University Press 2005

Impossible Desires

Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures

Gayatri Gopinath
Edited by: Judith Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

In the series Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386537

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

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

Reviews

“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 and postcolonial studies’ heteronormativity and androcentrism.”—Ranjana Khanna, author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism

“Gayatri Gopinath’s innovative book marks a new stage in queer and diasporic studies. Incisive, expansive, and nuanced, Gopinath’s analysis will surely be invoked by academics in the future. A landmark piece of scholarship!”—Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora

“[T]his smart and well-written book signals a sea change in the field. . . . Impossible Desires stands as a pathbreaking work, addressing persistent exclusions in both feminist and queer literatures on South Asian public culture and significantly reworking current conceptualizations of diaspora.”

-- Lawrence Cohen Journal of Asian Studies

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

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 262
Illustrations
- Other: 12 b&w photos

eBook

Published: April 19, 2005
ISBN: 9780822386537