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Pakistan Desires : Queer Futures Elsewhere by Kasmani, Omar,, Duke University Press, is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The contributors to Pakistan Desires offer a multidisciplinary view on figures and forms of queerness in Pakistan, inviting reflection on queer's myriad meanings in Pakistan and explore how desire can serve as a mode of queer future-making. 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 th

Who reads Pakistan Desires : Queer Futures Elsewhere?

Author

Kasmani, Omar,, Duke University Press,

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781478027317

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Social Sciences, Social_sciences