Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times

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Jasbir K. Puar with a new foreword by Tavia Nyong'o Ten years on, Jasbir K. Puar’s Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to rev erberate across multiple political landscapes, activist projects, and scholarly pursuits. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, shifting queers from their construction as figures of death to subjects tied to ideas of life and productivity. This tenuous inclusion of some queer subjects depends, however, on the production of populations of Orientalized terrorist bodies. Heteronormative ideologies that the U.S. nation-state has long relied on are now accompanied by what Puar calls homonationalism—a fusing of homosexuality to U.S. pro-war, pro-imperialist agendas. December 8, 2017392 pages, 6 x 9 inchesISBN: 9780822371502PaperbackDuke University Press Show more