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Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures / Edition 1
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Gopinath juxtaposes diverse texts to indicate the range of oppositional practices, subjectivities, and visions of collectivity that fall outside not only mainstream narratives of diaspora, colonialism, and nationalism but also most projects of liberal feminism and gay and lesbian politics and theory. She considers British Asian music of the 1990s alongside alternative media and cultural practices. Among the fictional works she discusses are V. S. Naipaul's classic novel
, Ismat Chughtai's short story "The Quilt," Monica Ali's
, Shyam Selvadurai's
, and Shani Mootoo's
. Analyzing films including Deepa Mehta's controversial
and Mira Nair's
, she pays particular attention to how South Asian diasporic feminist filmmakers have reworked Bollywood's strategies of queer representation and to what is lost or gained in this process of translation. Gopinath's readings are dazzling, and her theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching.