Abundance

Sexuality’s History

Anjali Arondekar

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English

Duke University Press
18 October 2023

Social issues & processes; Gender studies, gender groups; Sexual behaviour

Series: Theory Q

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 and ordinary. For Arondekar, abundance is inextricably linked to the histories of subordinated groups in ways that challenge narratives of their constant devaluation. Summoning abundance over loss upends settled genealogies of historical recuperation and representation and works against the imperative to fix sexuality within wider structures of vulnerability, damage, and precarity. Multigeneric and multilingual, transregional and historically supple, Abundance centers sexuality within area, post/colonial, and anti/caste histories.

By: Anjali Arondekar
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781478019909
ISBN 10: 1478019905
Series: Theory Q
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 18 October 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Make.Believe.Sexuality's Subjects 1 1. In the Absence of Reliable Ghosts: Archives 33 2. A History I Am Not Writing: Sexuality's Exemplarity 63 3. Itinerant Sex: Geopolitics as Critique 90 Coda. I Am Not Your Data. Caste, Sexuality, Protest 112 Acknowledgments 129 Primary Sources 135 Secondary Sources 139 Index 163

Anjali Arondekar is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews for Abundance: Sexuality’s History

By shifting our attention from the recuperation of sexuality as loss to understanding it as a site of abundance, Anjali Arondekar forces a reckoning with the knowledges of subaltern groups in the global South. Abundance will blow a wide hole in South Asian historiography as well as sexuality studies in the United States. -- Indrani Chatterjee, author of * Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India *