Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India

ISBN-13: 9780367554248 / Miękka / 2023 / 198 str.

Kaustav Chakraborty

Opis

This book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India. It elucidates the queer elements in the oral narratives of four indigenous communities from East and Northeast India, which are found to be significant repositories of gender fluidity and non-normative desires.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Folktales, Non-normativity and the Queer Indigeneity  2. In the company of An-other: Methodology, Debates and Concerns  3. ‘Wandering Between Two Worlds’: ‘Mainstream’ Ethos, Transgression and Narratives of the Anarcho-dissidence in Toto  4. Discord as Defilement: Consensual Incest in Limbu Folktales and 'Mainstreaming' of the Feminine  5. Stages in the Proscription of Homoeroticity: Lepcha Folktales and Mythistory  6. Manly Women, Womanish Men: Genderqueer in Select Rabha Tales  7. Queer India as Neo-Bahujan: Towards a Possible Assembling

O autorze

Kaustav Chakraborty is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Southfield (formerly Loreto) College, Darjeeling, India. He was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India. His recent publications include Tales and Alternatives: Revisiting Select Tribal Folktales (2017), The Politics of Belonging in Contemporary India: Anxiety and Intimacy (2019), Indian Drama in English (2014) and Tagore and Nationalism (co-edited, 2017). His research interests include indigenous literature and culture, queer theory, and cultural studies.