Homelandings

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).

• 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.