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.
- Multigeneric and Multilingual Approach:
- Abundance draws on multigeneric, multilingual, and transregional perspectives to tell the story of sexuality.
- The work is flexible across historical time periods and geographical contexts, combining area, postcolonial, and anti-caste histories.
- Re-framing Sexuality in Context:
- Arondekar centers sexuality within the broader political contexts of area studies, post/colonial histories, and anti/caste movements, providing a more intersectional and nuanced understanding of sexuality’s role in subaltern histories.
- Scholarly Contribution:
- Abundance contributes to the fields of sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, and caste studies, offering a unique challenge to the dominant narratives surrounding the history of marginalized sexualities and their cultural legacies.
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