Hoshang Merchant

Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts (eBook, PDF)

New India's Gay Poets

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Produktbeschreibung

The book argues that there is no monolithic homosexuality; there are only homosexualities, that is, there are as many reasons for being gay as there are gays. Some people are born gay, some have gayness thrust upon them, and some do, indeed, achieve to great gayness. Representation of homosexuality/homoeroticism, as it is understood today, is th

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000087451
• Artikelnr.: 60581526

Autorenporträt

Professor, Department of English, University of Hyderabad

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Queering India Introduction Book I: Book of the
Self - Introduction 1. Subterranean Sex in the Subcontinent: Is
Homosexuality 'Indian'? (Personal Essay) Appendices : (a) Homosexual/ Dalit
Literature (b) Transforming Pedagogies: (c) Gays with Critical Disability
Book II: Book of the World - Introduction 2. Indian Narrativity: Fiction,
Film, Theatre 3. Urdu Gay Literature: Poetry 4. Hindi Gay Literature 5. Gay
Theatre 6. Gay Films Appendices (a) The Eunuch Festival of Aaravan (b)
Transsexual Hosts on TV Talkshows (c) The Pakistan Poet as Eunuch: Ifti
Nasim (d) Gender-fuck in Namdeo Dhasal's 'Gandu Baghicha' (e) Jameela
Nishat: Muse as Poet (f) Rukmini Bhaya Nair's 'Hermaphrodite' (g) Satish
Alekar's Begum Barve Book III Book of the Soul - Introduction 7. Sultan
Padamsee: A Pioneer Gay Poet? 8. The Strange Case of Jehangir Bhownagary
(1921-2004) 9. Adil Jussawalla and R. Raj Rao: The Politics of the
Avant-Garde 10. Agha Shahid Ali's Gay Nation 11. The Anxiety of Coming Out:
Vikram Seth 12. Suniti Namjoshi 13. Dinyar Godrej and Ian Iqbal Rashid 14.
The Art of Bhupen Khakhar Afterword: My Poetry Postscript: A Note on the
Structure of this Book