Argues for the uses of queer, feminist transnational theory in order to understanding South Asian and South Asian diasporic identities and cultural production.
1Impossible desires : an introduction12Communities of sound : queering South Asian popular music in the diaspora293Surviving Naipaul : housing masculinity in A house for Mr. Biswas, Surviving Sabu, and East is east634Bollywood/Hollywood : queer cinematic representation and the perils of translation935Local sites/global contexts : the transnational trajectories of Fire and "the quilt"1316Nostalgia, desire, diaspora : Funny boy and Cereus blooms at night1617Epilogue : queer homes in diaspora187