CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Finding the Queer in Niladri R. Chatterjee’s The Scholar -Dr. Nilanjan Chakraborty
2. Gender Dysphoria: Disjuncture between Preferred and Biological
Genders in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry
of Utmost Happiness -Dr. S. Devika
3. Evening Shadows; Untraded POV
(Point of View) -Dr. Girish S.
Kousadikar
4. LGBTQIA
Spaces in Hindi Cinema -Dr. Mangesh Madhukar Gore
5. Aman Loves Kartik: A Queer Approach towards
Indian Cinema through the Movie Shubh
Mangal Zyada Saavdhan -Dr. Shachi
Sood & Parveen Kumar
6. Queer
of the ‘Body’: A Reading of Devdutt Pattanaik’s The Pregnant King -Anmona
Bora
7. Lesbian Theme in Manju Kapur’s A
Married Woman: A Critical Study -Jayadev
Kar
8. Human
Rights, LGBT Movement and Judicial Observation in India -Arup Ghosh
9. Queers
- The 'Other' Normals and Their Way of Life in an Objectionable Society -Anirban Das Karmakar
10. Unfolding the Other: A Queer Korero of Indian
Hi-Stories Chronicled in Khushwant Singh’s Delhi:
A Novel -Prosenjit Ghosh
11. Transgenders’ Youth (En femme & En
homme): Life and Struggle of Indian Transgenders in the Writings of Living
Smile Vidya, Manobi Bandyopadhyay and Laxminarayan Tripathi -Raghabendra Garai
12. ‘Visibilizing the Invisible’: Cross-dressing
and Gender Politics in Mathileri Kanni,
A Medieval Heroic Ballad of North Malabar - Annapoorna L.R.
13. Queer Politics:
‘Aligarh’, Identity and Representation –Surbhi
14. Mourning and Queer Identity in Dibyajyoti
Sarma’s A Married Man -Shibashish Purkayastha
15. Homosexuality in Kerala and the Politics of Alienation -Adharsh E. & Solomon K Sathyadas
16. The Torch Bearers of Indian Queer Writing: A
Critical Study of Selected Plays of Mahesh Dattani and Vijay Tendulkar -Subhadeep Talukder
17. A Brief Interview with Ruth Vanita on Major Points of Her Life, Vision and Works -Dipak Giri
Notes on the Contributors
Index
Notes on the
Contributors
1. Dr. Nilanjan Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor, Department of English,
Panchla Mahavidyalaya, Raghudevpur, Uluberia, West Bengal.
2. Dr. S. Devika is an Associate Professor, Department of English, HHMSPBNSS College for
Women, Neeramankara, Trivandrum, Kerala.
3.
Dr. Girish S. Kousadikar is an
Assistant Professor, Department of English, B. Raghunath College, Parbhani, Maharashtra.
4.
Dr Mangesh Madhukar Gore is an Assistant Professor & Head, Department of English, Sundarrao
More ACS College, Poladpur, Raigad, Maharashtra.
5.
Dr. Shachi Sood is an Assistant Professor, Department
of English, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, Jammu & Kashmir.
6.
Parveen Kumar is a Research Scholar, Department of
English, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, Jammu & Kashmir.
7.
Anmona Bora is a former Associate Professor,
Department of English, J.B. College (Autonomous), Jorhat, Assam.
8.
Jayadev Kar is a Lecturer, Department of English,
D.A.V. (Auto) College, Titilagarh, Odisha.
9.
Arup Ghosh is an Assistant Professor, Department
of Political Science, Balurghat Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Balurghat, West Bengal.
10.
Anirban Das Karmakar is an Assistant Teacher of English in
Dhagari High School (H.S.), Jhargram, West Bengal.
11.
Prosenjit Ghosh is an Assistant Teacher, Malgaon
Malitola F. P. School, Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal.
12.
Raghabendra Garai, former Guest Lecturer, Department of
English, Bikramjeet Goswami Memorial college, Purulia, West Bengal, is a Ph. D.
Research Scholar, Department of English, Ranchi University, Jharkhand.
13.
Annapoorna L.R. is a Ph. D. Research Scholar, Centre
for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
14.
Surbhi is a Ph. D. in Society and
Development from Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar.
15.
Shibashish Purkayastha is a Ph. D. Research Scholar
(English), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of
Technology, Guwahati, Assam.
16.
Adharsh E. is an M.A. Malayalam Student, Sree
Shankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady, Kerala & a Resourse person at
Queerythm LGBTIQ+ Organization, Kerala.
17. Solomon K Sathyadas is an M. Phil scholar, School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.
18.
Subhadeep Talukder is a Ph. D. Research
Scholar, Department
of English, T.
M Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur, Bihar.
19.
Dipak Giri is an Assistant Teacher of English, Katamari High School (H.S.), Cooch
Behar, West Bengal and a Ph. D. Research Scholar, Raiganj University, Raiganj,
Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal.