Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society

ISBN-13: 9780415929493 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 264 str.

Ruth Vanita

Opis

Queering India provides 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 the area. The topics are wide-ranging, considering film, literature, popular culture, historical and religious texts, law and other aspects of life in India. All the essays are original to the collection.

Recenzje

" Queering India provides a fascinating, livley, and historically grounded discussionof the impact of same-sex love on Indian culture. Spanning a range of disciplines, these essays shatter the myth that homosexuality is a Western or Northern experience. This is an excellent collection"
--Urvashi Vaid, co-editor of Creating Change: Public Policy, Sexuality, and Civil Rights."
"Ruth Vanita's wonderful project bears fruit. She has assembled a superb collection of essays that establish the queerness of desis, the sexual struggle of Indian history. Queering India will annoy the despots, but forces of desire do not give in without a few good books."
--Vijay Prashad, author of The Karma of Brown Folk."
""Queering India" offers exactly what the best scholarship is supposed to. The book contains an impressive variety of ways to view a vast array of experiences, expressions, and perspectives on the lives of a complex and diverse part of the world. This collection will undermine any shallow assumptions or stereotypes one might hold about sexuality, gender, and daily life in South Asia"
--Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity."

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Ruth Vanita is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Montana. She is the co-editor of Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature (2000).