Ishtyle: Accentg Gay Indian Nightlife By Kareem Khubchandani. Triangulatns: Lbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Ann Arbor: Universy of Michigan Prs, 2020; pp. xxiv + 262. $34.95 e-book. - Volume 62 Issue 2
Contents:
- ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE
- SISSY LSONS: GAY INDIAN PEDAGOGI OF NIGHTLIFE (ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BOOK REVIEW)SISSY LSONS: GAY INDIAN PEDAGOGI OF NIGHTLIFE (ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BOOK REVIEW)SISSY LSONS: GAY INDIAN PEDAGOGI OF NIGHTLIFE (ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BOOK REVIEW)SISSY LSONS: GAY INDIAN PEDAGOGI OF NIGHTLIFE (ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BOOK REVIEW)SISSY LSONS: GAY INDIAN PEDAGOGI OF NIGHTLIFE (ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BOOK REVIEW)
- ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE
- REVIEW: ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BY KAREEM KHUBCHANDANI
- ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BY KAREEM KHUBCHANDANI. TRIANGULATNS: LBIAN/GAY/QUEER THEATER/DRAMA/PERFORMANCE. ANN ARBOR: UNIVERSY OF MICHIGAN PRS, 2020; PP. XXIV + 262. $80 CLOTH, $34.95 PAPER, $34.95 E-BOOK.
ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE
Ishtyle: Accentg Gay Indian Nightlife. Kareem Khubchandani’s Ishtyle is an novative and rehg cril survey of gay Indian nightlife cultur diaspora that anchors s theoretil trajectory around the monograph’s tle.
The matns alce around the thor’s diverse experienc and field work at the Dilic dance parti New York Cy as well as Bollywood cultur, and, as such, the book is an important mash-up between gay cultural studi and South Asian diasporic studi.
SISSY LSONS: GAY INDIAN PEDAGOGI OF NIGHTLIFE (ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BOOK REVIEW)SISSY LSONS: GAY INDIAN PEDAGOGI OF NIGHTLIFE (ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BOOK REVIEW)SISSY LSONS: GAY INDIAN PEDAGOGI OF NIGHTLIFE (ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BOOK REVIEW)SISSY LSONS: GAY INDIAN PEDAGOGI OF NIGHTLIFE (ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BOOK REVIEW)SISSY LSONS: GAY INDIAN PEDAGOGI OF NIGHTLIFE (ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BOOK REVIEW)
” Rather than fltg to Wtern athetics (whe, gay, cisgenr, mascule, and middle-upper class), atten rist, argu Khubchandani, rporatized gay culture favor of accented stylistics of queer nightlife cultur. Its send chapter, “Dancg Agast the Law: Cril Mov Pub Cy, ” foc on legal rtrictns of gay nightlife Bangalore nstellated around the postlonial untry’s notor, Victorian-era Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co.
” — shifts Khubchandani’s matns on ishtyle to the gay environs of Chigo the Uned Stat. Chapter three th exam the LGBTQI+ neighborhood of Boystown as a marketplace for si bodi where whe gay men view them as ornaments for homonormative whens.
ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE
Leveragg pellg terviews and field rearch, Khubchandani appris rears on how “(c)olonial legaci have affixed race, genr, sexualy, lkg hyperfemy and Asiannns, hypermasculy and Blackns, and passn and Latidad;” this brgs the gay si male’s “brown migrant body to a kd of good gay genr” (85). Here, Khubchandani trac dappankoothu mic and dance om Dal muni, threadg them through Ta films and to a queer dance party lled Koothnytz— where dappankoothu rejects both hetero and homonormative “rpectabily” by subvertg propriety as another strategy of ishtyle.
An award-wng volume, Ishtyle: Accentg Gay Indian Nightlife is as provotive as the cultural artifacts and films analys.
Khubchandani has fed a fabulo, pellg parative study of queer Indian subcultur that ploy ishtyle to subvert the normalized ways which lonialist and whe supremacist gay culture fetishiz Black and Brown bodi, as well as the English language, while lordg over them nsumer cultur.
REVIEW: ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BY KAREEM KHUBCHANDANI
While the nsumer cultur are staged as celebratory steps towards gay visibily, Khubchandani nvcgly urg rears to regnize that any study of non-whe, ntemporary queer culture is plete whout a sober reckong of ishtyle today. Movg between the shiftg, venue-pennt gay parti of Bangalore nightlife and South Asian-themed nights Chigo's gay clubs and bars, Khubchandani chas the accented mos of speech, drs, gture, dance, and performance that fail to adhere to hegemonic s of whens, cisns, and upper stens.
They leapt out at me while I was readg Kareem Khubchandani’s book Ishtyle: Accentg Gay Indian Nightlife, which documents the pleasur and perils of beg ‘out’ at night Bangalore and Chigo.
”He speaks of the gay men he meets om a place of “cril generosy. Siarly, Chigo, when queer si men ngregate at nightclubs, they are often lookg to make social nnectns pecially if their heterosexual si lleagu the US are homophobic and the whe gay men they end up meetg are racist. Khubchandani wr about the support queer sis offer one another by “hog recent asyle and lol iends displaced om their hom, brgg new and nervo South Asians om across the Midwt they have met onle to their first gay bar, openg hom to strangers by hostg potlucks.
ISHTYLE: ACCENTG GAY INDIAN NIGHTLIFE BY KAREEM KHUBCHANDANI. TRIANGULATNS: LBIAN/GAY/QUEER THEATER/DRAMA/PERFORMANCE. ANN ARBOR: UNIVERSY OF MICHIGAN PRS, 2020; PP. XXIV + 262. $80 CLOTH, $34.95 PAPER, $34.95 E-BOOK.
On the other hand, unsettl the hypermascule athetic of gay nightclubs that ironilly look down upon transfemy and prohib cross-drsg even as they play Srivi and Madhuri Dix songs.
” Cg barriers such as steep ver charg, class privilege, transphobia and steism, he argu that “some cultural workers are never given the opportuny to participate” spac that are meant for prof rather than muny thor reveals that, many of his rearch terviews wh gay men Bangalore, he observed that their ‘g out’ stori clud clarifyg to fai and iends, “I am not a hijra. ” Is this simply a matter of g the rrect vobulary or relyg on the “hypervisibily of poor-class transgenr muni to make gayns palatable to middle- and upper-class fai?