| Description |
1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Indian Vernaculars and the Queer: An Introduction -- Contested Classifications -- Theorizing through the Vernacular -- Queer and the Bhasa Literature -- Reel, Real and the Virtual -- Deciphering the Dearth -- Voicing the Regional Queer in Vernacular -- Methodology and Politics of the Book -- Limitations and Possibilities -- How the Horned Owls Originated -- Coda -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Vernacular Vocabularies and Expressions of the Regional Queer |
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Chapter 1: Laingik Alpasankhya and Queer Identities in the Present-Day Marathi Language -- Introduction -- The Need for Conceptualizing Queerness in the Present-Day Marathi Language -- Laingik Alpasankhya -What It Is -- The Philosophical Substance of Laingik -- The Philosophical Substance of Alpasankhya -- Universality by Translative Possibilities -- In Lieu of a Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Queer in Karnataka: Exploring Male Same-Sex Sexualities in the Non-Metropolitan -- Introduction -- Field Sites and Methodology -- The Non-Metropolitan Space |
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Visibilities, the Internet and the Non-Metropolitan -- Mobilities, Technology and the Regional Geographies of Sex -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: A Hidden Language That Reveals a Distinct Culture: Revisiting the Lingua Franca of the Hijra Community -- Introduction -- Critics on the Hijra Lingo -- Geo-space and Methods -- Conjectures and Contemplations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: LGBTQ+ and the Regional Literature -- Chapter 4: Precarious Lives, Fraught Selves: Tirunangai Autobiographies in Tamil -- A. Revathi: The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story |
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Tanuja: An Autobiography, An Eezham Tirunangai's Journey and Struggle -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: 'They' Are Queer: Transgressing Gender Normativity in Vernacular Assamese Literature -- Transgressive Sexuality: Daring to Explore -- Reclaiming Sexual Identities in Oxomiya Golpos -- Confinement, Resistance and Queer: Subverting Performative Gender -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Urdu and the Queer Consciousness -- Introduction -- Queerness of Urdu Literature: Arabic and Persian Connections -- Queerness of Urdu Literature: Sufi Turn and other Influences |
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Homoerotic Urdu: Poets and Their Poetry -- Urdu Literature: The Centrality of the Hijra and other Voices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III: Performing the Vernacular Queer Offline, Online and On Screen -- Chapter 7: Mawngkuahur in the Times of E-Love: Sexualities, Regimentation, Control, Display and the Zo Queer -- The Zo World: Sexualities, Regimentation, Control -- The Methodological and Conceptual Moorings -- The Bible, Gender Turn and the Question of Diversity -- Sissyphobia: Mawngkuahur as Mawng Nau -- Being Tuai, Being Mawngkuahur: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Our Sky: Dreams, Hopes and Exasperations |
| Subject |
Gay people in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chakraborty, Anup Shekhar
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| ISBN |
9781000963403 |
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1000963403 |
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