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Homelandings: Postcolonial Diasporas and Transatlantic Belonging
Contributor(s): Gairola, Rahul K. (Author)
ISBN: 1783489731     ISBN-13: 9781783489732
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
OUR PRICE:   $52.47  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Dewey: 306.766
LCCN: 2016020904
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 255 pages
 
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Homelandings is a critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge exclusive formulations of 'home' and 'homeland' based on racist and heteronormative assumptions. It critically engages with Foucault's notions of "biopolitics" and "governmentality" as a conjoined technology of governance in the era of neoliberal capitalism ushered into the global economy from the late 1970s. Drawing on texts produced by diasporic people in the UK and USA whose work resists and re-appropriates exclusive home sites produced by trends of Anglo-American neoliberalism, it exposes entrenched discourses of exclusion rooted in race, class, and sexuality. In doing so, it offers an urgent intervention for students and scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies, Anglophone literature, comparative literature, Race and Ethnicity studies, and Queer studies.

Contributor Bio(s): Gairola, Rahul K.: - Rahul K. Gairola is Assistant Professor of English & Comparative Literature in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He is an Article Editor for Postcolonial Text, and co-editor of Revisiting India's Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics (Lexington Books, 2016).