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Abundance: Sexuality’s History with Anjali Arondekar

Max Kade Institute
Los Angeles CA, United States
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Join Prof. Anjali Arondekar (UCSC Feminist Studies) for a discussion about her latest book Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke University Press, 2023). Abundance 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. Here, 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.

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Max Kade Institute
Los Angeles CA, United States