{"product_id":"pakistan-desires-9781478025238","title":"Pakistan Desires","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on history, anthropology, literature, law, art, film, and performance studies, the contributors to \u003ci\u003ePakistan Desires\u003c\/i\u003e 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 vo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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. \u003ci\u003ePakistan Desires\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003ePakistan Desires\u003c\/i\u003e such a pathbreaking collection.” -- Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, author of * The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. *stan \/ Omar Kasmani  1\u003cbr\u003e Mehfil\u003cbr\u003e 1. Of Girls, Desire, and Sacred Things \/ Syeda Momina Masood  23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Loving Men, Loving God \/ Shayan Rajani  31\u003cbr\u003e 3. Fixed Possibilities: The Threat of Transmasculinity in the Urdu Tale of Agar \/ Pasha M. Khan  49\u003cbr\u003e 4. Spaces of Critique, Spaces of Desire: Gender-Crossing in Pakistani Cinema \/ Gwendolyn S. Kirk  65\u003cbr\u003e 5. Partitioned Listening: Sonic Exercises Outside of Archival Time \/ Syma Tariq  83\u003cbr\u003e 6. Miraji’s Poetics for Queering History \/ Geeta Patel  100\u003cbr\u003e 7. This Is Home after All \/ Nael Quraishi  118\u003cbr\u003e After Heather Love, and Others \/ Asad Alvi  121\u003cbr\u003e Mehfil\u003cbr\u003e 8. Temporal Nonconformity: Being There Together as\u003ci\u003e Khwajasara\u003c\/i\u003e in a Time of One’s Own \/ Vanja Hamzić  125\u003cbr\u003e 9. On the Other Side of the Rainbow? \u003ci\u003eKhwaja Sira\u003c\/i\u003e Pieties, Politics, Performances, and the Tablighi Jama‘at \/ Claire Pamment  146\u003cbr\u003e 10. A Queer History of Pakistani Art: Anwar Saeed and Other Ways of Love \/ Abdullah Qureshi  166\u003cbr\u003e 11. Beyond Hooking Up: Tales from Grindr in Pakistan \/ Ahmed Afzal  184\u003cbr\u003e 12. How I Like It \/ Nida Mehboob  203\u003cbr\u003e 13. Queer \u003ci\u003eDesi\u003c\/i\u003e Formations: Marking the Boundaries of Cultural Belonging in Chicago \/ Gayatri Reddy  216\u003cbr\u003e 14. Queer in a Time of Kashmir \/ Jeffrey A. Redding  236\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. Everywhere \u003ci\u003eMehfil\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Anjali Arondekar  251\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  257\u003cbr\u003e Index  263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409017479511,"sku":"9781478025238","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478025238.jpg?v=1730505111","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pakistan-desires-9781478025238","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}