Terrorist assemblages : homonationalism in queer times / Jasbir K. Puar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puar, Jasbir K., 1967-

Series:

Next wave (Duke University Press)

Next wave

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Political aspects.

Homosexuality.

Terrorism--Social aspects.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Summary:

In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, through developments including the legal recognition inherent in the overturning of anti-sodomy laws and the proliferation of more mainstream representation. These incorporations have shifted many queers from their construction as figures of death (via the AIDS epidemic) to subjects tied to ideas of life and productivity (gay marriage and reproductive kinship). Puar contends that this tenuous inclusion of some queer subjects depends on the production of populations of Orientalized terrorist bodies. Heteronormative ideologies that the U.S. nation-state has long relied on are now accompanied by homonormative ideologies that replicate narrow racial, class, gender, and national ideals. These "homonationalisms" are deployed to distinguish upright "properly hetero," and now "properly homo," U.S. patriots from perversely sexualized and racialized terrorist look-alikes-especially Sikhs, Muslims, and Arabs-who are cordoned off for detention and deportation.

Contents:

Introduction : homonationalism and biopolitics

The sexuality of terrorism

Abu Ghraib and U.S. sexual exceptionalism

Intimate control, infinite detention : rereading the Lawrence case

"The turban is not a hat" : queer diaspora and practices of profiling

Conclusion : queer times, terrorist assemblages.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-324) and index.

ISBN:

9780822340942

0822340941

9780822341147

082234114X

OCLC:

137324975