Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and
the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does
sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What
are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And
conversely, what kind of “archive” does such a recuperative
hermeneutics produce? Rather than render sexuality’s relationship
to the colonial archive through the preferred lens of historical
invisibility (which would presume that there is something about
sexuality that is lost or silent and needs to “come out”),
Arondekar engages sexuality’s recursive traces within the
colonial archive against and through our very desire for access.The
logic and the interpretive resources of For the Record arise out of
two entangled and minoritized historiographies: one in South Asian
studies and the other in queer/sexuality studies. Focusing on late
colonial India, Arondekar examines the spectacularization of
sexuality in anthropology, law, literature, and pornography from
1843 until 1920. By turning to materials and/or locations that are
familiar to most scholars of queer and subaltern studies, Arondekar
considers sexuality at the center of the colonial archive rather
than at its margins. Each chapter addresses a form of archival
loss, troped either in a language of disappearance or paucity,
simulacrum or detritus: from Richard Burton’s missing report on
male brothels in Karáchi (1845) to a failed sodomy prosecution in
Northern India, Queen Empress v. Khairati (1884), and from the
ubiquitous India-rubber dildos found in colonial pornography of the
mid-to-late nineteenth century to the archival detritus of
Kipling’s stories about the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies |
| Release date: |
September 2009 |
| Firstpublished: |
November 2009 |
| Authors: |
Anjali Arondekar
|
| Dimensions: |
231 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
216 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-4533-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8223-4533-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780822345336 |
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