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Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere

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Availability:In StockContributor:Omar Kasmani (Editor)Publish date:2023-11-17Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478025238ISBN-10:1478025239UPC:9781478025238Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, AnthropologyBook Topic:Asian Studies, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC08QVT9QF
Drawing on history, anthropology, literature, law, art, film, and performance studies, the contributors to Pakistan Desires invite reflection on what meanings adhere to queerness in Pakistan. They illustrate how amid conditions of straightness, desire can serve as a mode of queer future-making. Among other topics, the contributors analyze gender transgressive performances in Pakistani film, piety in the transgender rights movement, the use of Grindr among men, the exploration of homoerotic subject matter in contemporary Pakistani artist Anwar Saeed's work, and the story of a sixteenth-century Sufi saint who fell in love with a Brahmin boy. From Kashmir to the 1947 Partition to the resonances of South Asian gay subjectivity in the diaspora, the contributors attend to narrative and epistemological possibilities for queer lives and loves. By embracing forms of desire elsewhere, ones that cannot correlate to or often fall outside dominant Western theorizations of queerness, this volume gathers other ways of being queer in the world.

Contributors. Ahmed Afzal, Asad Alvi, Anjali Arondekar, Vanja Hamzic, Omar Kasmani, Pasha M. Khan, Gwendolyn S. Kirk, Syeda Momina Masood, Nida Mehboob, Claire Pamment, Geeta Patel, Nael Quraishi, Abdullah Qureshi, Shayan Rajani, Jeffrey A. Redding, Gayatri Reddy, Syma Tariq
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478025238ISBN-10:1478025239UPC:9781478025238Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, AnthropologyBook Topic:Asian Studies, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC08QVT9QF
Omar Kasmani is Guest Lecturer in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universit?t Berlin and author of Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan, also published by Duke University Press.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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