Impossible desires : queer diasporas and South Asian public cultures /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gopinath, Gayatri, 1969-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
Series:	Perverse modernities.
Subjects:	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.

Table of Contents:

Impossible desires : an introduction
Communities of sound : queering South Asian popular music in the diaspora
Surviving Naipaul : housing masculinity in A house for Mr. Biswas, Surviving Sabu, and East is east
Bollywood/Hollywood : queer cinematic representation and the perils of translation
Local sites/global contexts : the transnational trajectories of fire and "The quilt"
Nostalgia, desire, diaspora : funny boy and cereus blooms at night
Epilogue: queer homes in diaspora.