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Worlding postcolonial sexualities : publics, counterpublics, human rights / Kanika Batra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Batra, Kanika, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Subversive histories, feminist futures NWSA prize.
- Subversive histories, feminist futures NWSA prize
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual rights--Developing countries.
- Sexual rights.
- Sexual rights--Press coverage--Developing countries.
- Sexual minorities--Developing countries.
- Sexual minorities.
- Sexual minorities in mass media.
- Human rights movements--Press coverage--Developing countries.
- Human rights movements.
- Postcolonialism.
- Press coverage.
- Developing countries.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 202 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Kanika Batra is Professor of English at Texas Tech University. She writes on and teaches transnational feminist and queer studies, postcolonial literature, and comparative literature. She is the author of Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott and Edward Brathwaite (2001) and Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama (2011).
- Contents:
- Introduction: Worlding postcolonial sexualities : archives, activism, and anterior counterpublics
- "Betta mus cum" : Jamaica as the 'problem-space' of gay and lesbian liberation
- "Rights a di plan" : Sistren and sexual solidarities in Jamaica
- Creating a locational counterpublic : Manushi and the articulation of human rights and sexuality from Delhi, India
- Outing Indian sexualities : Bombay Dost and the limits of queer intersectionality
- Worlding sexualities under apartheid : from gay liberation to a queer Afropolitanism
- Mediated sexualities : civic feminism and development critique in South Africa
- Digital counterpublics and intergenerational listening.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 18, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Batra, Kanika, 1972- Worlding postcolonial sexualities
- ISBN:
- 9781000430127
- 100043012X
- 9780367772161
- 0367772167
- 9781000430097
- 100043009X
- 9781003170303
- 1003170307
- Publisher Number:
- 40030682280
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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