Abstract

The mandate to think of Stonewall as a global historical event within South Asia necessitates a difficult act of translation. Was my goal as a historian of sexuality and South Asia to decentre the primacy of Stonewall with local historical events of import? Or was it more epistemological, to address instead the question of why historical causality and memorialization works differently within the fabular geography that is South Asia? In other words, did the history of the Stonewall riots create more of a political demand on subaltern collectivities to ‘produce’ their own seismic historical event, or did it foreground even further the epistemological divide between the West and the Rest? This brief essay is a meditation on these questions and more.

中文翻译：

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历史的性别，或对象/事物

摘要

将Stonewall视为南亚内部的全球历史事件的授权要求进行艰难的翻译。我作为性与南亚历史学家的目标是，通过当地历史性事件来分散斯通沃尔的首要地位吗？还是更多地从认识论的角度出发，来解决为什么历史因果关系和纪念意义在南亚虚构地理环境中的作用不同的问题？换句话说，石墙暴动的历史是不是对次级集体提出了更多的政治要求，以“制造”自己的地震历史事件，还是它进一步凸显了西方与其他国家之间的认识论分歧？这篇简短的文章是对这些问题以及更多问题的沉思。