Ila Nagar

Being Janana

Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India

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Produktbeschreibung

Being Janana focuses on same-sex desiring male-bodied subjects in Lucknow, India and explores how they make meaning in the marginalization of their desire through language performativity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780367777265
• ISBN-10: 0367777266
• Artikelnr.: 61211568

Autorenporträt

Ila Nagar is Assistant Professor of Hindi and South Asian Cultures at The Ohio State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Entering the world of jananas
2. Janana stories: Living as a janana
3. Jananas and hijras: Perpetual conflict and attraction
4. The janana community of practice: How the janana world works
5. Negotiating identity through varying gender marking
6. To feel like a woman: Violence and formation of the janana subject
7. Janana subalterns
8. Epilogue.