The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora
by Gayatri Gopinath
- Auteur(s)
- Gayatri Gopinath
- Uitgever
- Durham, N.C. ; London : Duke University Press, 2018
- Omvang
- 236 p., geïllustreerd, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781478000358
In Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region, and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary queer visual culture. Spanning film, fine art, poetry, and photography, these cultural forms—which Gopinath conceptualizes as aesthetic practices of queer diaspora—reveal the intimacies of seemingly disparate histories of (post)colonial dwelling and displacement and are a product of diasporic trajectories. Gopinath stages unexpected encounters between works by South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Australian, and Latinx artists. She shows how their art functions as regional queer archives that express alternative understandings of time, space, and relationality. The queer optics produced by these visual practices creates South-to-South, region-to-region, and diaspora-to-region cartographies that profoundly challenge disciplinary and area studies rubrics. Gopinath thereby provides new critical perspectives on settler colonialism, empire, military occupation, racialization, and diasporic dislocation as they indelibly mark both bodies and landscapes.
- Trefwoorden
- queer theory
- Locatie in de bibliotheek
- Kast 29 - 4: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; zwarte kunst en cultuur
- Opmerkingen
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
