TY - BOOK AU - Gopinath, Gayatri, TI - Impossible desires: queer diasporas and South Asian public cultu res SN - 0822335018 U1 - 306.766089914 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Gays in popular culture KW - South Asians KW - Foreign countries KW - Social conditions KW - South Asians in literature KW - South Asians in mass media KW - Homosexuality in motion pictures KW - Homosexuality in literature KW - Homosexuality in music N1 - 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 ER -