A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive : Lucknow Queerscapes

A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive Lucknow Queerscapes

A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive explores the architectural production of nawabs Asaf-ud-daula and Wajid Ali Shah, and reveals the colonial bias against queer expression. It is intended for scholars and students of queer studies, postcolonial studies, architectural his...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mithal, Sonal (-)
Other Authors: Paul, Arul
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group 2024.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Queer theory.
Postcolonialism.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009842736606719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Dragging Up the Past
  • 1 Gender, Sex, and State in Nawabi Lucknow
  • 2 Locating Forms of Resistance and Transgression
  • 3 Queering the Colonial Archive
  • 4 Locating Inaccuracies, Fallacies, and Biases in the Colonial Archive
  • 5 Counter-Archives
  • 6 Contesting Colonial Claims
  • Part II Lucknow Queerscapes
  • 7 Architecture of Asaf-ud-Daula
  • The Machhi Bhavan Precinct
  • The Daulatkhana Precinct
  • The Bada Imambada Complex
  • 8 Architecture of Wajid Ali Shah
  • 9 Of Vaudeville Variety
  • Multivalence, Ambiguity, and Plurality
  • Accommodating Leisure, Female Gaze, and Dissent
  • Combining the Aesthetic of the Austere, the Extravagant, and the Industrial
  • Institutionalized Ishq That Cultivates, Cajoles, and Controls
  • Overlapping Realms of Affinities and Hierarchies
  • Intersectionalities That Subvert
  • Theatricity
  • Queer Collections and Excess
  • Dressing Up and Dressing Down

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