Homelandings : postcolonial diasporas and transatlantic belonging / Rahul K. Gairola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gairola, Rahul K., 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Nationalism.

Racism.

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

xvi, 255 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]

Summary:

Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas & Transatlantic Belonging is a critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge exclusive formulations of 'home' and 'homeland' based on racist and heteronormative assumptions. It critically engages with Foucault's notions of 'biopolitics' and 'governmentality' as a conjoined technology of governance in the era of neoliberal capitalism ushered into the- global economy from the late 1970s. Drawing on texts produced by diasporic people in the United Kingdom and the United States whose work resists and re-appropriates exclusive home sites produced by trends of Anglo-American neoliberalism, it exposes entrenched discourses of exclusion rooted in race, class and sexuality. In doing so, it offers an urgent intervention for students and scholars of cultural studies, postcoloniai studies, Anglophone literature, comparative literature, race and ethnicity studies and queer studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Home, Queer Home: Postcolonial Belonging in the Transatlantic Anglosphere 1

2 Between Homes: Western Education and Transgressions of Disciplinary Knowledge in Michelle Cliffs Abeng 29

3 Capitalist Houses, Queer Homes: Sexuality and Belonging in Hanif Kureishi's and Stephen Frears's My Beautiful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 73

4 Homesick for Future Revolution: Heteronormative Lifestyles and Queer Heterotopias in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters 121

5 Home Is Where the Heart Writes: Race, Media, Masculinity, and the Market in Jackie Kay's Trumpet 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gairola, Rahul K., 1974- author. Homelandings.

ISBN:

9781783489725

1783489723

9781783489732

1783489731

OCLC:

940520677