Homelandings

Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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

Utgivningsdatum2016-09-21
Mått155 x 228 x 17 mm
Vikt381 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor255
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781783489732

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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

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.