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Impossible desires : queer diasporas and South Asian public cultures / Gayatri Gopinath.

By: Gopinath, Gayatri, 1969-Material type: TextTextSeries: Perverse modernitiesPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, c2005. Description: xii, 247 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN: 0822335018 (hc : alk. paper); 0822335131 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Gays in popular culture | South Asians -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions | South Asians in literature | South Asians in mass media | Homosexuality in motion pictures | Homosexuality in literature | Homosexuality in musicDDC classification: 306.76/6/089914 LOC classification: HQ76.25 | .G67 2005Online resources: Table of contents
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.

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.

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