Unruly visions : the aesthetic practices of queer diaspora / Gayatri Gopinath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gopinath, Gayatri, 1969- author.

Series:

Perverse modernities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality and art.

Aesthetics.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

xii, 236 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In 'Unruly Visions' Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on studies of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture. Spanning film, fine art, poetry, and photography, these cultural forms-which Gopinath conceptualizes as aesthetic practices of queer diaspora-reveal the intimacies of seemingly disparate histories of (post)colonial dwelling and displacement and are a product of diasporic trajectories. Countering standard formulations of diaspora that inevitably foreground the nation-state, as well as familiar formulations of queerness that ignore regional gender and sexual formations, she stages unexpected encounters between work by South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Australian, and Latinx artists such as Tracey Moffatt, Akram Zaatari, and Allan deSouza. Gopinath shows how their art functions as regional queer archives that express alternative understandings of time, space, and relationality. The queer optic produced by these visual practices create south-to-south, region-to-region, and diaspora-to-region cartographies that profoundly challenge disciplinary and area studies rubrics. Gopinath thereby provides new critical perspectives on settler colonialism, empire, military occupation, racialization, and diasporic dislocation as they indelibly mark both bodies and landscapes.

Contents:

Introduction. archive, region, affect, aesthetics

Queer regions: imagining Kerala from the diaspora

Queer disorientations, states of suspension

Diaspora, indigeneity, queer critique

Archive, affect, and the everyday

Epilogue. crossed eyes: toward a queer-sighted vision.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781478000280

1478000287

9781478000358

147800035X

OCLC:

1010506244