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Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora

Gopinath, Gayatri·2018·Duke University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1215/9781478002161
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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. Countering standard formulations of diaspora that inevitably foreground the nation-state, as well as familiar formulations of queerness that ignore regional gender and sexual formations, she stages unexpected encounters between works by South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Australian, and Latinx artists such as Tracey Moffatt, Akram Zaatari, and Allan deSouza. Gopinath 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.

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Authors
Gopinath, G.
Corresponding author
Gopinath, Gayatri
Venue
Duke University Press eBooks
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
2018-11-16
DOI
10.1215/9781478002161
OpenAlex
W4229564790
Cited by
146
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Citations by year
2026: 34 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 33 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 13
FWCI
19.11
Type
book
Language
en
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closed
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Duke University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Cultural Studies and Colonialism
Keywords
queer diaspora, queer visual culture, visuality, affect, archives, settler colonialism, racialization, diaspora art, Tracey Moffatt, Akram Zaatari

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