A queer reading of nawabi architecture and the colonial archive Lucknow queerscapes / Sonal Mithal and Arul Paul.
| Author/creator | Mithal, Sonal |
| Other author | Paul, Arul. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2025. |
| Description | volumes cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Gender, sex, and state in nawabi Lucknow -- Locating forms of resistance and transgression -- Queering the colonial archive -- Locating inaccuracies, fallacies, biases in the colonial archive -- Counter-archives -- Contesting colonial claims -- The architecture of Asaf-ud-Daula -- Architecture of Wajid Ali Shah -- Of vaudeville variety -- Of perverse compositions -- Of in-tensions and obscurations. |
| Abstract | "A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive explores the architectural production of nawabs Asaf-ud-daula and Wajid Ali Shah, and reveals the colonial bias against queer expression. It offers methods of using queer strategies to read archival evidence against the grain and rewrite erased, overlooked, and suppressed histories. The book provides its readers a unique queer postcolonial architectural history of Lucknow from 1775-1857. It highlights the nawabs' non-normative expressions which offered not just a fierce resistance to the colonial enterprise, but also was instrumental in furthering Lucknow as a cultural center. It simultaneously extracts out parameters from queer studies, and redefines them to illustrate ways in which queer architecture can be characterized. It reconstructs the footprint of nawabi architecture erased by the colonial enterprise and places it back on map-an exercise not undertaken as meticulously until now. A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive is intended for scholars and students of queer studies, postcolonial studies, architectural history and the global south, as well as the citizens of Lucknow"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024018258 |
| ISBN | 9781032441290 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032441344 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |