Queering the Pashtun: Afghan sexuality in the homo-nationalist imaginary

Nivi Manchanda

Third World Quarterly, 2015, vol. 36, issue 1, 130-146

Abstract: A certain, pathologised image of the Afghan man now dominates the mainstream Western imaginary. This article interrogates representations of Pashtun males in Anglophone media, arguing that these representations are embedded in an Orientalist, homo-nationalist framework. Through a specific focus on the construction of the Taliban as sexually deviant, (improperly) homosexual men, the paper underscores the tensions and contradictions inherent in the hegemonic narrative of ‘Pashtun sexuality’. It also revisits the debate about homosexuality as a ‘minority identity’, arguing that the act versus identity debate is deployed in this context simultaneously to make the Pashtun Other legible and to discredit his alternate ways of being.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2014.974378

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