Abundance: Sexuality's History

by Anjali Arondekar

Book Overview

In Abundance, Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, and that the deficit of our minoritized pasts can be redeemed through acquisitions of lost pasts. Instead, Arondekar theorizes the radical abundance of sexuality through the archives of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj--a caste-oppressed devadasi collective in South Asia--that are plentiful and quotidian, imaginative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478019905
• ISBN13: 9781478019909
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"