By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She examines South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music in order to suggest alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations. Her agile readings challenge nationalist ideologies by bringing to light that which has been rendered illegible or impossible within diaspora: the impure, inauthentic, and nonreproductive. 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\u2019s classic novel A House for Mr. Biswas, Ismat Chughtai\u2019s short story \u201cThe Quilt,\u201d Monica Ali\u2019s Brick Lane, Shyam Selvadurai\u2019s Funny Boy, and Shani Mootoo\u2019s Cereus Blooms at Night. Analyzing films including Deepa Mehta\u2019s controversial Fire and Mira Nair\u2019s Monsoon Wedding, she pays particular attention to how South Asian diasporic feminist filmmakers have reworked Bollywood\u2019s strategies of queer representation and to what is lost or gained in this process of translation. Gopinath\u2019s readings are dazzling, and her theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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