Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by Jasbir K. Puar

Author:Jasbir K. Puar
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Social Science, LGBT Studies, Gay Studies, Ethnic Studies, General, Feminism & Feminist Theory
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2018-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Turbans Becoming Strange Attractors

The turban is accruing the marks of a terrorist masculinity. The turbaned man—no longer merely the figure of a durable and misguided tradition, a community and familial patriarch, a resistant antiassimilationist stance—now inhabits the space and history of monstrosity, of that which can never become civilized. The turban is not only imbued with the nationalist, religious, and cultural symbolics of the Other; it both reveals and hides the terrorist, a constant sliding between that which can be disciplined and that which must be outlawed. Despite the taxonomies of the turban, its specific regional and locational genealogies, its placement in time and space, its singularity and its multiplicity, the turban-as-monolith profoundly troubles and disturbs American national imaginaries and their attendant notions of security.

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