| Portion of title |
Aesthetic practices of queer diaspora |
| Series |
Perverse modernities
Perverse modernities. ^A486667
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| Contents |
Introduction : archive, region, affect, aesthetics -- Queer regions : imagining Kerala from the diaspora -- Queer disorientations, states of suspension -- Diaspora, indigeneity, queer critique -- Archive, affect, and the everyday -- Epilogue : crossed eyes : toward a queer-sighted vision. |
| Abstract |
In Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture. Spanning film, fine art, poetry, and photography, these cultural forms--which Gopinath conceptualizes as aesthetic practices of queer diaspora--reveal the intimacies of seemingly disparate histories of (post)colonial dwelling and displacement and are a product of diasporic trajectories. Countering standard formulations of diaspora that inevitably foreground the nation-state, as well as familiar formulations of queerness that ignore regional gender and sexual formations, she stages unexpected encounters between works by South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Australian, and Latinx artists such as Tracey Moffatt, Akram Zaatari, and Allan deSouza. Gopinath shows how their art functions as regional queer archives that express alternative understandings of time, space, and relationality. The queer optics produced by these visual practices creates South-to-South, region-to-region, and diaspora-to-region cartographies that profoundly challenge disciplinary and area studies rubrics. Gopinath thereby provides new critical perspectives on settler colonialism, empire, military occupation, racialization, and diasporic dislocation as they indelibly mark both bodies and landscapes. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Use copy Restrictions unspecified star |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| Technical details | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Action note |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Gopinath, Gayatri, 1969- Unruly visions 147800035X 9781478000358 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018008226 |
| ISBN | 9781478002161 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1478002166 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
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| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Stock number | 22573/ctv11bwqkp JSTOR |
