Pakistan Desires
Queer Futures Elsewhere
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Duke University Press
Published:17th Nov '23
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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
“In this volume Pakistan emerges as a valuable site from which to think queer not only because it is forgotten in the scholarly and global imagination, but because it is richly complex in its gender and sexual politics. Pakistan Desires is an urgent re-narration of Pakistan as well as an important call to queer studies to more seriously engage the Muslim world, see the limits of the field’s universal theorizations, and to ask how else queer can manifest elsewhere.” -- Kareem Khubchandani, author of * Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife *
“This extraordinary collection of literary, aesthetic, ethno-historical, art-historical, and sociological writings on queer thought, lives, and politics in Pakistan captures the pulse of a defiant, restless, and fierce creativity: it is what makes Pakistan Desires such a pathbreaking collection.” -- Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, author of * The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories *
ISBN: 9781478020325
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 612g
288 pages