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Impossible Desires de Gayatri Gopinath

Impossible Desires

Autor Gayatri Gopinath
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 apr 2005

În volumul Impossible Desires, Gayatri Gopinath propune o reconfigurare radicală a studiilor despre diasporă prin aplicarea teoriei queer asupra spațiului cultural sud-asiatic. Subliniem faptul că autoarea se distanțează de logica sângelui și a descendenței patriliniare, oferind în schimb o înțelegere nuanțată a subiectivității feminine care a fost, istoric, considerată „imposibilă” sau ilizibilă în cadrul narațiunilor naționaliste. Descoperim aici o analiză agilă care pune în dialog muzica British Asian a anilor '90 cu texte literare fundamentale și producții cinematografice contemporane.

Ediția publicată de Duke University Press integrează 12 fotografii alb-negru care susțin vizual explorarea practicilor opoziționale. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Gopinath juxtapune opere precum A House for Mr. Biswas de V. S. Naipaul sau Brick Lane de Monica Ali cu analize ale filmelor Fire și Monsoon Wedding. Ea investighează ce se pierde și ce se câștigă în procesul de traducere a strategiilor de reprezentare specifice Bollywood-ului către un public global. Cititorii familiarizați cu Beyond Bollywood de Jigna Desai vor aprecia modul în care Gopinath extinde discuția despre cinemaul hibrid, oferind un cadru teoretic mai vast care cuprinde și literatura sau muzica.

Această lucrare pune bazele cercetărilor ulterioare ale autoarei; dacă în Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath se va concentra pe vizualitate și arhive afective, în Impossible Desires ea stabilește fundamentul critic pentru deconstrucția normativității în cultura publică sud-asiatică. Ritmul argumentației este dens, dar accesibil, reușind să scoată la lumină viziuni de colectivitate ce depășesc feminismul liberal sau politicile gay tradiționale.

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ISBN-13: 9780822335139
ISBN-10: 0822335131
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 12 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 162 x 226 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Duke University Press

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților interesați de sociologie, studii de gen și postcolonialism. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care sexualitatea modelează apartenența la o comunitate transnațională. Este un instrument esențial pentru a înțelege cum cultura populară și literatura pot submina ideologiile naționaliste rigide prin promovarea unor identități hibride și „neautentice”.

Despre autor

Gayatri Gopinath este profesor asociat în cadrul departamentului de Studii despre Femei și Gen la University of California, Davis. Activitatea sa academică se situează la intersecția dintre studiile queer, teoria diasporei și cultura vizuală. Prin lucrările sale, Gopinath a devenit o voce de referință în analiza modului în care estetica și dorința queer perturbă narațiunile coloniale și naționaliste, concentrându-se în special pe spațiul Asiei de Sud și pe comunitățile migrante din Marea Britanie și America de Nord.

Descriere scurtă

A major intervention in queer, postcolonial, and cultural studies, Impossible Subjects rethinks the concept of diaspora through examinations of a range of South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gaytri Gopinath develops a concept of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She explains how the framework of a queer diaspora recuperates those desires, practices, and subjectivities that are rendered unimaginable within the dominant diasporic and nationalist imaginaries. A consideration of queerness becomes a way to challenge nationalist ideologies by restoring what has been rendered illegible or impossible: the impure, inauthentic, and non-reproductive. It suggests alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations, ways based in politics rather than blood or nostalgia for the homeland and times past.Gopinath juxtaposes diverse texts to indicate the range of oppositional practices, subjectivities, and visions of collectivity that fall outside mainstream narratives of colonialism, nationalism, liberal feminism, and gay and lesbian politics and theory. She considers British Asian music of the 1990s alongside alternative media and cultural practices. She examines literature including V. S. Naipaul’s classic novel A House for Mr. Biswas, Ismat Chugtai’s short story “The Quilt,” Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Shyam Selvadurai Funny Face, and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night. Analyzing films including Deepa Mehta’s controversial Fire and Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding, she pays particular attention to how South Asian diasporic feminist filmmakers have reworked Bollywood’s strategies of queer representation. Gopinath’s readings are dazzling, and her insights and theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching.

Recenzii

"[Gayatri's] lively accessible writing ranges from British-Asian music, through Bollywood/Hollywood to the work of Pakistani writer Ishmat Chugtai. Her analysis of films including Fire and Monsoon Wedding is a particular highlight."--DIVA, October 2005“Gayatri Gopinath’s innovative book marks a new stage in queer and diasporic studies. Incisive, expansive, and nuanced, Gopinath’s analysis will surely be invoked by academics in the future. A landmark piece of scholarship!”—Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora“Boldly spanning Hindi film, British Asian music, Urdu literature, diasporic postcolonial literature and film, U.S. queer activism, and feminist politics, Gayatri Gopinath argues that queer desire becomes central to the ways in which national and diasporic histories are told when the erotics of power is acknowledged. Impossible Subjects is a deft demonstration of both queer theory’s dominant ethnocentrism and diaspora and postcolonial studies’ heteronormativity and androcentrism.”—Ranjana Khanna, author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism“Gopinath’s lively, accessible writing ranges from British-Asian music, through Bollywood/Hollywood to the work of Pakistani writer Ishmat Chugtai. Her analysis of films including Fire and Monsoon Wedding is a particular highlight.” —Diva Magazine“Impossible Desires is a fascinating and lively book that is lucidly written. It can be used equally well with committed undergraduate students as well as by more advanced scholarly readers to engage further with the queer female diasporic subject and the possibilities that she suggests.”— Rajinder Dudrah, GLQ“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. . . . Gopinath's readings are dazzling, and her theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching.”—Indologica blog“This smart and well-written book signals a sea change in the field. . . . Impossible Desires stands as a pathbreaking work, addressing persistent exclusions in both feminist and queer literatures on South Asian public culture and significantly reworking current conceptualizations of diaspora.”— Lawrence Cohen, Journal of Asian Studies
"[Gayatri's] lively accessible writing ranges from British-Asian music, through Bollywood/Hollywood to the work of Pakistani writer Ishmat Chugtai. Her analysis of films including Fire and Monsoon Wedding is a particular highlight."--DIVA, October 2005 "Gayatri Gopinath's innovative book marks a new stage in queer and diasporic studies. Incisive, expansive, and nuanced, Gopinath's analysis will surely be invoked by academics in the future. A landmark piece of scholarship!"--Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora "Boldly spanning Hindi film, British Asian music, Urdu literature, diasporic postcolonial literature and film, U.S. queer activism, and feminist politics, Gayatri Gopinath argues that queer desire becomes central to the ways in which national and diasporic histories are told when the erotics of power is acknowledged. Impossible Subjects is a deft demonstration of both queer theory's dominant ethnocentrism and diaspora and postcolonial studies' heteronormativity and androcentrism."--Ranjana Khanna, author of Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism "Gopinath's lively, accessible writing ranges from British-Asian music, through Bollywood/Hollywood to the work of Pakistani writer Ishmat Chugtai. Her analysis of films including Fire and Monsoon Wedding is a particular highlight." --Diva Magazine "Impossible Desires is a fascinating and lively book that is lucidly written. It can be used equally well with committed undergraduate students as well as by more advanced scholarly readers to engage further with the queer female diasporic subject and the possibilities that she suggests."-- Rajinder Dudrah, GLQ "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... Gopinath's readings are dazzling, and her theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching."--Indologica blog "This smart and well-written book signals a sea change in the field... Impossible Desires stands as a pathbreaking work, addressing persistent exclusions in both feminist and queer literatures on South Asian public culture and significantly reworking current conceptualizations of diaspora."-- Lawrence Cohen, Journal of Asian Studies

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"Boldly spanning Hindi film, British Asian music, Urdu literature, diasporic postcolonial literature and film, U.S. queer activism, and feminist politics, Gayatri Gopinath argues that queer desire becomes central to the ways in which national and diasporic histories are told when the erotics of power is acknowledged. "Impossible Desires" is a deft demonstration of both queer theory's dominant ethnocentrism and diaspora and postcolonial studies' heteronormativity and androcentrism."--Ranjana Khanna, author of "Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism"

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Argues for the uses of queer, feminist transnational theory in order to understanding South Asian and South Asian diasporic identities and cultural production.