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SUMMARY:Straight Nation
DESCRIPTION:The next event in our book presentation series is Pavan Mano’s Straight Nation: Heteronormativity and other exigencies of postcolonial nationalism. Join us in person at King’s College\, London\, or online on Facebook or YouTube. Please note that a free ticket\, available above\, is required for this event. \nAbout the book \nStraight Nation dissects the intricacies of nationalism in postcolonial Singapore and its entanglements with the governance of sexuality. Rejecting the romanticization of the nation as a pure bastion of belonging\, the book theorizes nationalism as a force obsessed with continually generating threats\, and excavates the alliance it has struck up with heteronormativity to produce a series of minoritized figures that contemporary identity claims can neither handle nor dispel. \nThrough an elegant exploration of a vast array of texts and cultural artifacts\, the book argues that the relationship between sexuality and nation is instrumental in producing multiple queered figures who are displaced from the national imaginary. Dwelling on what is often taken as conventional wisdom\, Straight Nation demonstrates how queerness can be xenologized under the sign of the postcolonial nation and turned into a technology of “race”\, gender and class in the right contexts. \nThe book delivers a sharp riposte to narrow identity politics and outlines in detail how the governance of sexual expression functions as a powerful mechanism to shape the lives of many – including\, as unlikely as it may seem\, heterosexual people. In the face of the far-reaching effects of heteronormativity coupled with nationalism\, Straight Nation presents a compelling argument for an expansive\, non-identarian political critique capable of dismantling the deeply entrenched force of heteronormativity in postcolonial Singapore\, and the detritus of nationalism along with it. \nStraight Nation is published by Manchester University Press \nAbout Pavan \nPavan Mano is a Lecturer in Global Cultures in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities at King’s College London.
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