... immigration Aurora Guerrero Chitra Ganesh Agha Shahid Ali metronormativity ...

... that both texts evoke states of suspension and disorientation that reject the straight lines of metronormative narratives of gay and immigrant success and “the good life.” This chapter also engages the poetry of the Kashmiri American poet Agha Shahid Ali, whose work similarly evokes an alternative...

... of queer diaspora also conjure forth a queer regional imaginary, one that situates the region as the locus of alternative logics of gender and sexuality that challenge the primacy of metronormative sexual and gender formations. These aesthetic practices produce a queer optic that enables us to grasp...