Pakistan desires: queer futures elsewhere
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. Amon...
| Summary: | 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 Hamzić, 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 "Pakistan Desires gathers essays on the complex landscape of queer desire in Pakistan, but also on how Pakistan itself desires and is formed by desire. It is by extension a critical discussion of how desire is tied to ideation of place and nation. Utilizing both queer history and queer theory, the volume demonstrates that thinking about is always also a thinking from, and by thinking from Pakistan, it moves past the (often implicit) Western European and North American center of queer and affect studies. Rather than saying simply that Pakistan, too, is queer, the contributors expand our understanding of Pakistan as a place by delving into its affective geopolitics, unfolding the pluralities of desire that form its history, and finding queerness in its everyday intricacies"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (288 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4780-2731-7 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9781478027317 |
