Indiscretions : At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory.

In the West, once apparently progressive causes such as sexual equality and lesbian and gay emancipation are increasingly redeployed in order to discipline and ostracize immigrant underclass subjects, primarily Muslims. Gender and sexuality on the one hand and race, culture, and/or ethnicity on the...

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Main Author: Aydemir, Murat
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.
Series:Thamyris /Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, 22.
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Summary:In the West, once apparently progressive causes such as sexual equality and lesbian and gay emancipation are increasingly redeployed in order to discipline and ostracize immigrant underclass subjects, primarily Muslims. Gender and sexuality on the one hand and race, culture, and/or ethnicity on the other are more and more forced into separate, mutually exclusive realms. That development cannot but bear on the establishment of queer and postcolonial studies as separate academic specializations, among whom relations usually are as cordial as they are indifferent. This volume inquires into the po.
Physical Description:1 online resource (258 pages)
ISBN:9789042031883
9042031883
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.