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Khubchandani, Kareem.

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Ishtyle: Queer Nightlife Performance in India and the South Asian Diaspora.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ishtyle: Queer Nightlife Performance in India and the South Asian Diaspora./
Author:	Khubchandani, Kareem.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2014,
Description:	322 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-10A(E).
Subject:	Gender studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3626774
ISBN:	9781321018196

Ishtyle: Queer Nightlife Performance in India and the South Asian Diaspora.
Khubchandani, Kareem.

Ishtyle: Queer Nightlife Performance in India and the South Asian Diaspora. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2014 - 322 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2014.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation is a multi-sited ethnography that follows transnational migrants from across South Asia who come to international cities such as Bangalore and Chicago to work in the IT industry and related fields. By exploring social dance amongst gay South Asian labor migrants, this research reveals the urgency of art and creativity in everyday life as a means of coping with displacement, alienation, and cultural policing. Each chapter details the significance of gay nightclubs as spaces where performance, especially dance, allows research interlocutors to temporarily deviate from gendered and professional social scripts, and from the constant expectations of respectability. Through performances of "ishtyle" (or "accented style") they rehearse new ways of being in the world that are more capacious of their non-normative identities.

ISBN: 9781321018196Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122708
Gender studies.

Ishtyle: Queer Nightlife Performance in India and the South Asian Diaspora.
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520 $a The introduction explains "ishtyle" as well as describes data collection methods and analytic methodologies. The multisited nature of this project is justified by attending to the management of South Asian middle-class mobility through colonialism, economic liberalization, immigration policy, flexiblization of labor, and diasporic nostalgia. Chapter I analyzes dance scenes in Bangalore's gay party circuit that resist the consumerist pressure to conform to a global-gay identity, while also negotiating local anti-Western sentiments associated with club culture and gay identity. Chapter II explores Chicago's commercial gay scene as a stage that finds Indianness attractive, but not South Asian bodies. South Asians find themselves perpetually out of place in this commercial scene, and yet they are able to apprehend racist gay bars through Indian dance practices that reconfigure the dancefloor into more inclusive playing spaces. Chapter III focuses on Bollywood Dance as a cultural object that circulates transnationally. In the research sites, Bollywood Dance manifests in particularly nostalgic ways that resist neoliberal tendencies to commercialize and simplify the form. This allows research subjects to explore domesticity, childhood, and femininity in the cosmopolitan, sexualized, and masculinist space of the club. The conclusion re-evaluates the various case studies through the lens of shame and shamelessness to make clear the scripts of respectability that control and oppress South Asian migrants.
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