Overview
- Provides a textured and geopolitically specific genealogy of normativity in South Asia
- Develops a queer methodology that is interdisciplinary in its approach
- Demonstrates the theoretical richness emerging from an engagement of queer theory in South Asia
Part of the book series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times (THINKGEN)
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This book will be of interest to scholars and students studying and researching Queer Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, South Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Film Studies, and Media Studies.
Reviews
“Norms, normal, normalization, normativity – a litany of linked terms that have been frequently deployed by scholars and activists writing on and working on sexualities in South Asia. However, few of those writing have taken on the absolutely necessary task of speaking to the conditions of their production, the political economies of their deployment or their manifold histories. In this remarkably useful monograph, this is exactly what Daniel Luther does brilliantly. I urge scholars of sexuality to read the aptly titled, Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture: Wrong Readings Only, so that their own readings slant along the ‘right’ orientations.” (Prof. Geeta Patel, Professor of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures and Women, Gender & Sexuality, Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality, University of Virginia)
“Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture: Wrong Readings Only invites us to unsettle structures of normativity that undergird so much of South Asian Public Culture. J. Daniel Luther’s queer readings of “normativity” roam across genres and temporalities, from canonical novels, to popular Hindi cinema, from hegemonic cultural texts to ephemera, offering us supple and meticulous theorizations of normativity’s centrality in caste, class and gender politics in post-colonial worlds. To queer normativity, Luther deftly argues, is to uncover the contradictory cultural logic of the ordinary, the commonsensical, and to read queer life anew. A deeply personal and political book, Wrong Readings is a must-read for scholars of South Asian public culture and politics.” (Prof. Anjali R Arondekar, Professor of Feminist Studies, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz)
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Book Title: Queering Normativity and South Asian Public Culture
Book Subtitle: Wrong Readings Only
Authors: J. Daniel Luther
Series Title: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41298-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39508-6Published: 02 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41299-8Due: 15 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41298-1Published: 30 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2947-4361
Series E-ISSN: 2947-437X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 259
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Queer Studies, Gender Studies, Media and Communication, Asian Culture, History of South Asia, History of South Asia