In Abundance, Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense
that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of
sexuality, and that the deficit of our minoritized pasts can be
redeemed through acquisitions of lost pasts. Instead, Arondekar
theorizes the radical abundance of sexuality through the archives
of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj—a caste-oppressed devadasi
collective in South Asia—that are plentiful and quotidian,
imaginative and ordinary. For Arondekar, abundance is inextricably
linked to the histories of subordinated groups in ways that
challenge narratives of their constant devaluation. Summoning
abundance over loss upends settled genealogies of historical
recuperation and representation and works against the imperative to
fix sexuality within wider structures of vulnerability, damage, and
precarity. Multigeneric and multilingual, transregional and
historically supple, Abundance centers sexuality within area,
post/colonial, and anti/caste histories.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Theory Q |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Anjali Arondekar
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
176 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-1990-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-4780-1990-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781478019909 |
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