£43.99
Publication Date:
16 Nov 2001
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 9 - 14 May 2024
Description
Queering India is the first book to provide an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial gay and lesbian life in India to provide a comprehensive look at a much neglected topic. The topics are wide-ranging, considering film, literature, popular culture, historical and religious texts, law and other aspects of life in India. Specifically, the essays cover such issues as Deepa Mehta's recent and controversial film, Fire, which focused on lesbian relationships in India; the Indian penal code which outlaws homosexual acts; a case of same-sex love and murder in colonial India; homophobic fiction and homoerotic advertising in current day India; and lesbian subtext in Hindu scripture. All of the essays are original to the collection. Queering India promises to change the way we understand India as well as gay and lesbian life and sexuality around the world.
Contents
Introduction,Ruth Vanita,Part One: Colonial Transitions,1. The Politics of Penetration: Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, Suparna Bhaskaran,2. Sultan Mahmud's Make-Over: Colonial Homophobia and the Persian-Urdu Literay Tradition, Scott Kugle,3. Doganas and Zanakhis: The Invention and Subsequent Erasure of Urdu Poetry's Lesbian Voice, Carla Petievich,4. Alienation, Intimacy, and Gender: Problems for a History of Love in South Asia, Indrani Chatterjee,5. Eunuchs, Lesbians, and Other Mythical Beasts: Queering and De-Queering the Kamasutra, Michael Sweet,Part Two: The Visions of Fiction,6. Loving Well: Homosexuality and Utopian Thought in Post/Colonial India, Leela Gandhi,7. Do I Remove My Skin?: Interrogating Indentity in Suniti Namjoshi's Fables, Anannya Dasgupta,8. Queernesses All Mine: Same-Sex Desire in Kamala Das's Fiction and Poetry, Rosemary Marangoly George 9. Homophobic Fiction/Homoerotic Advertising: The Pleasures and Perils of Twentieth-Century Indianness, Ruth Vanita,10. What Mrs. Besahara Saw: Reflections on the Gay Goonda, Lawrence Cohen,Part Three: Performative Pleasures in Theater, TV, and Cinema,11. A Different Desire, A Different Femininity: Theatrical Transvestism in the Parsi, Gujarati, and Marathi Theaters, 1850-1940, Kathryn Hansen,12. Queer Bonds: Male Friendships in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema, Muraleedharan T.,13. I Sleep Behind You: Male Homosociality and Homoeroticism in Indian Parallel Cinema, Thomas Waugh,14. Queer Pleasures for Queer People: Film, Television, and Queer Sexuality in India, Shohini Ghosh,15. On Fire: Sexuality and its Incitements, Geeta Patel,16. After the Fire: Smoldering Questions about Representation, Monica Bachmann,Notes on Contributors,
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