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Rahul K. Gairola - Homelandings, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Homelandings

Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging

Av Rahul K. Gairola

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-09-21
  • Mått: 159 x 237 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 531 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 255
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781783489725
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Rahul K. Gairola is Assistant Professor of English & Comparative Literature in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He is an Article Editor forPostcolonial Text, and co-editor ofRevisiting India's Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics (Lexington Books, 2016).

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Homelandings is an intersectional study of postcolonial film and fiction emerging from the USA and UK during the Reaganite and Thatcherite period. It addresses the work of Michelle Cliff, Hanif Kureishi, Jessica Hagedorn, and Jackie Kay. Through a sustained analysis of the interaction of racism, sexism, classism and queerphobia in marking the experience and strategies of resistance of queer agents of colour, it provides a penetrating critique of received notions of home and belonging. A timely contribution to our understanding of what Gairola calls a ‘ situated genealogy of “home”’. Essential reading for anyone interested in innovative interdisciplinary analysis.

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