Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures

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Author: Gayatri Gopinath

ISBN-10: 0822335018

ISBN-13: 9780822335016

Category: Asian Literature

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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