Rahul K. Gairola

Homelandings (eBook, PDF)

Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging

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Produktbeschreibung

Homelandings is a critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge exclusive formulations of 'home' and 'homeland' based on racist and heteronormative assumptions. It critically engages with Foucault's notions of "biopolitics" and "governmentality" as a conjoined technology of governance in the era of neoliberal capitalism ushered into the global economy from the late 1970s. Drawing on texts produced by diasporic people in the UK and USA whose work resists and re-appropriates exclusive home sites produced by trends of Anglo-American neoliberalism, it exposes entrenched discourses of exclusion rooted in race, class, and sexuality. In doing so, it offers an urgent intervention for students and scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, Anglophone literature, comparative literature, Race and Ethnicity studies, and Queer studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216240112
• Artikelnr.: 74399146

Autorenporträt

Rahul K. Gairola is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Prologue: History as Home Base
1. Home, Queer Home: Postcolonial Belonging in the Transatlantic Anglosphere
2. Between Homes: Western Education and Transgressions of Disciplinary Gender Roles in Michelle Cliff's Abeng
3. Capitalist Houses, Queer Homes: Sexuality & Belonging in Hanif Kureishi's and Stephen Frears's My Beautiful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
4. Homesick for Future Revolution: Heteronormative Lifestyles and Queer Heterotopias in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters
5. Home is Where the Heart Writes: Race, Media, Masculinity, and the Market in Jackie Kay's Trumpet
Epilogue: Broken Homes and Insecure Homelands
Index