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Gopinath, Gayatri, 1969-

Impossible desires : queer diasporas and South Asian public cultu res / Gayatri Gopinath. - Durham : Duke University Press, 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 : queer ing South Asian popular music in the diaspora -- Surviving Naipaul : ho using masculinity in A house for Mr. Biswas, Surviving Sabu, and East i s east -- Bollywood/Hollywood : queer cinematic representation and the perils of translation -- Local sites/global contexts : the transnationa l trajectories of fire and "The quilt" -- Nostalgia, desire, diaspora : funny boy and cereus blooms at night -- Epilogue: queer homes in diasp ora.

ISBN: 0822335018 0822335131 (pbk.) 9780822335139 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2004-027163

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.

Dewey Class. No.: 306.766089914