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Impossible desires : queer diasporas and South Asian public cultures / Gayatri Gopinath.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gopinath, Gayatri, 1969-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Perverse modernities.
- Perverse modernities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people in popular culture.
- South Asians--Foreign countries--Social conditions.
- South Asians.
- South Asians in literature.
- South Asians in mass media.
- Homosexuality in motion pictures.
- Homosexuality in literature.
- Homosexuality in music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Argues for the uses of queer, feminist transnational theory in order to understanding South Asian and South Asian diasporic identities and cultural production.
- Contents:
- Impossible desires : an introduction
- Communities of sound : queering South Asian popular music in the diaspora
- Surviving Naipaul : housing masculinity in A house for Mr. Biswas, Surviving Sabu, and East is east
- Bollywood/Hollywood : queer cinematic representation and the perils of translation
- Local sites/global contexts : the transnational trajectories of fire and "The quilt"
- Nostalgia, desire, diaspora : funny boy and cereus blooms at night
- Epilogue: queer homes in diaspora.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613024077
- 9781283024075
- 1283024071
- 9780822386537
- 0822386534
- OCLC:
- 607834221
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