Kanika Batra

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities (eBook, PDF)

Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity, vulnerability, and resistance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000430097
• Artikelnr.: 62321988

Autorenporträt

Kanika Batra is Professor of English at Texas Tech University. She writes on and teaches transnational feminist and queer studies, postcolonial literature, and comparative literature. She is the author of Caribbean Poetry: Derek Walcott and Edward Brathwaite (2001) and Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Archives,
Activism, and Anterior Counterpublics Part I Abeng, Challenging Depravation
Chapter 2 "Betta Mus Cum": Jamaica as the 'Problem-Space' of Gay and
Lesbian Liberation Chapter 3 "Rights a di Plan": Sistren and Sexual
Solidarities in Jamaica Part II Azadi, Emerging Freedoms Chapter 4 Creating
a Locational Counterpublic: Manushi and the Articulation of Human Rights
and Sexuality from Delhi, India Chapter 5 Outing Indian Sexualities:
Bombay Dost and the Limits of Queer Intersectionality Part III Amandla,
Embodying Power Chapter 6 Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay
Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism Chapter 7 Mediated Sexualities: Civic
Feminism and Development Critique in South Africa Coda: Digital
Counterpublics and Intergenerational Listening