![]() ![]() However, very little research has investigated the dual dilemma inherent in occupying a queer and diasporic position in the Indian North American context vis-à-vis negotiating temporal and spatial displacement. Research on queer South Asian topics in the North American context includes the critical insights of Gayatri Gopinath, Gita Rajan and Shailja Sharma, Roksana Badruddoja, and Geoffrey Burkhart. ![]() Manalansan IV, Dai Kojima, and contributors to collections of essays edited by Russell Leong and by David L. To this end, a considerable amount of critical work has been done on Asian American queer narratives by scholars such as Sau-ling C. Critical focus has been accorded to texts emerging out of transnational dislocations and displacements with accompanying tropes of conflicts, accommodations, and negotiations, especially in the North American context. In recent years, the academic study of literature dealing with the queer diaspora has provided literary studies with multifarious insights into the interconnections between race, gender, sexuality, and migration. 1 Given increasing sociopolitical concerns regarding diasporic movements and queer activism across transnational spaces, 1 academic inquiries into the identity politics of the queer diaspora have become more timely, relevant, and necessary. ![]()
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