Gopinath, Gayatri, 1969-

Impossible desires : queer diasporas and South Asian public cultures / Gayatri Gopinath. - 1st ed. - Durham ; Calcutta : Duke University Press ; Seagull Books Pvt Ltd, 2005. - xii, 247 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. - Perverse modernities .

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.

9788170463184 (pbk.)

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Gays in popular culture.
South Asians--Social conditions.--Foreign countries
South Asians in literature.
South Asians in mass media.
Homosexuality in motion pictures.
Homosexuality in literature.
Homosexuality in music.

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