Being Janana: Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India

ISBN-13: 9780367777265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str.

Ila Nagar

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Ila Nagar is Assistant Professor of Hindi and South Asian Cultures at The Ohio State University, USA.