Ila Nagar

Being Janana

Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India

• Broschiertes Buch

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.

Along with their desire for other men, jananas maintain ostensibly heteronormatively and culturally defined masculine positions. This book argues for an intersectional approach to understanding janana life worlds and situates janana subjectivity in dialogue with social, cultural, linguistic, and legal happenings. In engaging with the full complexity of janana identities and experience, Ila Nagar calls for a reassessment of gender categories and a new understanding of power and sexuality amidst emerging Indian modernities.

Derived from ethnographic research conducted over a period of twelve years, this book also reflects on the interaction between social actors and researchers, and critically examines the use of ethnography as amethod in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. It will be of interest to scholars from Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Linguistics.

Produktdetails

• Theorizing Ethnography
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• 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.

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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.