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.
0822335018 0822335131 (pbk.) 9780822335139 (pbk.)
2004-027163
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.