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Terrorist assemblages : homonationalism in queer times / Jasbir K. Puar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Puar, Jasbir K., 1967-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Next wave.
- Next wave
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality--Political aspects.
- Homosexuality.
- Terrorism--Social aspects.
- Terrorism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (365 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A critical analysis of contemporary racial and sexual politics involved in post-9/11 laws and culture, where practices of liberal tolerance and the inclusion of gay, lesbian, homosexual, and queer subjects into the nation-state have developed into a type
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923593
- 9780822340942
- 0822340941
- 9781282923591
- 1282923595
- OCLC:
- 271178145
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