Impossible desires : queer diasporas and South Asian public cultu res - Gopinath, Gayatri, 1969- (Durham : Duke University Press, 2005)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.
Keywords: Gays in popular culture; South Asians -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions; South Asians in literature; South Asians in mass media; Homosexuality in motion pictures; Homosexuality in literature; Homosexuality in music