Indiscretions : At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory.

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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aydemir, Murat
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.
Series:Thamyris /Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, 22.
Subjects:
Queer theory.
Postcolonialism.
Homosexuality.
postcolonialism.
homosexuality.
Homosexuality
Postcolonialism
Queer theory
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Indiscretions At the Sex/Culture Divide; Part One: Gay Holiday Cruises; Subaltern Looks and the Imperial Gaze: Charles Warren Stoddard's South Sea Idyls; The Orient of Critique: Ambivalence about the East in Wilde and Gide; Quempire: A Loiterly Journey into Heart of Darkness; Pleasures of the Orient: Cadinot's Maghreb as Gay Male Pornotopia; Part Two: Rearticulations of Sex/Race; The Double Nature of the Love Triangle: Sedgwick, Greene, Achebe.
  • Of Passing and Other Cures: Arjan Ederveen's Born in the Wrong Body and the Cultural Construction of EssentialismThe Refusal of Migrant Subjectivity: Queer Times and Spaces in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia; Blood Brothers; Part Three: Queer Nations; Lesbian Representation and Postcolonial Allegory; "Just to See": Fanon, National Consciousness, and the Indiscreet Look in Post-Third Cinema; What can Queer Theory Learn from Feminism in India?: Reversing Epistemological Frames; Weaving a Different Kind of Tartan: Musicality, Spectrality, and Kinship in Jackie Kay's Trumpet; Contributors.

Similar Items