{"product_id":"ishtyle-kareem-khubchandani-9780472054213","title":"Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife","description":"\u003ci\u003eIshtyle\u003c\/i\u003e follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago. Bringing the cultural practices they are most familiar with into these spaces, these men accent the aesthetics of nightlife cultures through performance. Kareem Khubchandani develops the notion of \"ishtyle\" to name this accented style, while also showing how brown bodies inadvertently become accents themselves, ornamental inclusions in the racialized grammar of desire. \u003ci\u003eIshtyle\u003c\/i\u003e allows us to reimagine a global class perpetually represented as docile and desexualized workers caught in the web of global capitalism. The book highlights a different kind of labor, the embodied work these men do to feel queer and sexy together. Engaging major themes in queer studies, Khubchandani explains how his interlocutors' performances stage relationships between: colonial law and public sexuality; film divas and queer fans; and race, caste, and desire. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that the unlikely site of nightlife can be a productive venue for the study of global politics and its institutional hierarchies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kareem Khubchandani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 047205421X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472054213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Kareem Khubchandani","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44598624321791,"sku":"9780472054213","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7e60bf86-9c0a-4eb3-9600-8b9260fb63d0.jpg?v=1702383541","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ishtyle-kareem-khubchandani-9780472054213","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}