Impossible Hosting
D'lo Sets an Undomesticated Stage for South Asian Youth Artists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4517172 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandra Chatterjee (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 443-462 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07407700600959091 |
| OpenAlex | W2020435690 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
At the center of this article is D'Lo, a Sri Lankan American hip hop performance artist, as the host of YouthWallah, a performance in Los Angeles, which features the work of South Asian youth artists. The focus of the article is on the possibility of an undomesticated stage that D'Lo creates for community youth artists as a female, yet unmistakably masculine host who translates female masculinity to a primarily straight South Asian audience as herself and, in drag, embodying her mother. D'Lo's performance includes autobiographical narratives of being gay and South Asian, which she uses to ground her politics in her experience. D'Lo does not perform the “exclusion” of a queer subject from a diasporic home. On the contrary D'Lo, as the host of this article home of YouthWallah 2004, provides an important undomesticated stage for the emergence of South Asian diasporic youth artists' voices and their alternative imaginations of diaspora. Therefore it becomes necessary to rethink the common conflation of notions of home and notions of domesticity, as a colonially inflected version of the home, which reproduces a colonial and gendered relation of power and thereby precludes the imagination of a decolonized community
Aesthetics · Art · Diaspora · Literature · Masculinity · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Vitality · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Music History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |