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In Impossible Desires, Gayatri Gopinath achieves something quite different, and this smart and well-written book signals a sea change in the field. It draws upon new writing across disciplines rethinking the work of sexual politics in constituting translocal South Asian public cultures....
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Gayatri Gopinath's Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Culture is another good example of an antiessentialist diasporic studies perspective...
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Gayatri Gopinath's book...is a welcome consideration of making the impossible possible, particularly those queer desires of same-sex longing and affection that circulate amid diasporic South Asian public cultures but that are rarely made visible as meaningful and engaging.
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In Impossible Desires Gopinath makes a significant contribution to this interrogation of fixed understandings of non-heterosexual sexualities.
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