Unruly visions : the aesthetic practices of queer diaspora /
In 'Unruly Visions' Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on studies 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 photo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Perverse modernities.
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| Summary: | In 'Unruly Visions' Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on studies 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 work 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 optic produced by these visual practices create 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 236 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478000280 1478000287 9781478000358 147800035X |