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.)
2004027163
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.