2014
DOI: 10.1215/10407391-2847964
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In the Absence of Reliable Ghosts: Sexuality, Historiography, South Asia

Abstract: Sexuality endures as an object of historical recovery through a poetics of melancholia, an irresolvable longing for loss that refuses all forms of consolation. My meditations call upon a historiography of sexuality in South Asia that pushes against the binding energies of such melancholic historicism. To fix sexuality primarily within such an arbitrary arsenal of loss (while politically exigent) is to refuse alternative histories of emergence. At its most ambitious, my essay ruminates instead on more imaginati… Show more

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“…This counter-archive is not merely about discovery or making queer bodies and performances visible (even through the queering of heteronormative Indo-Jamaican masculinity) within the context of indentureship, but it serves as a site for theoretical reformulation, whereby Indo-Jamaican culture serves to provisionally de-centre queer studies from its prioritized emphasis on gender and sexuality. Persard draws on queer studies scholar Anjali Arondekar's concept of 'ordinary surplus' (Arondekar 2015) to develop a 'queer theory of indenture', whereby she reads the nachaniya dancer's performance of queer erotic sensuality as ordinary -rather than exceptional -revealing the simultaneity of normativity and queerness. In doing so, her analysis resists discourses of queer exceptionalism (e.g., through the spectacularization of anti-queer violence) that often define mainstream queer studies.…”
Section: Amar Wahabmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This counter-archive is not merely about discovery or making queer bodies and performances visible (even through the queering of heteronormative Indo-Jamaican masculinity) within the context of indentureship, but it serves as a site for theoretical reformulation, whereby Indo-Jamaican culture serves to provisionally de-centre queer studies from its prioritized emphasis on gender and sexuality. Persard draws on queer studies scholar Anjali Arondekar's concept of 'ordinary surplus' (Arondekar 2015) to develop a 'queer theory of indenture', whereby she reads the nachaniya dancer's performance of queer erotic sensuality as ordinary -rather than exceptional -revealing the simultaneity of normativity and queerness. In doing so, her analysis resists discourses of queer exceptionalism (e.g., through the spectacularization of anti-queer violence) that often define mainstream queer studies.…”
Section: Amar Wahabmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Feminist scholars condemned Foucault for paying inadequate attention to gender, race, and colonialism and instead focused on female bodies through the lens of reproductive health within a biopolitical context . Scholars of sexuality, notably Anjali Arondekar (, ), charted new historiographical trajectories by challenging historians to abandon archival “search and rescue” or a “desire for [retrieving] lost bodies” in favor of inventing methodologies of reading the colonial archive that critiqued the processes of its collection. She placed sexuality at the center of the colonial archive rather at its margins.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For a historiography on sexuality, see Anjali Arondekar (); Indrani Chatterjee (); Jyoti Puri (), and Sanjay Srivastava ().…”
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confidence: 99%