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Queer Sexualities in Indian Culture: Critical Responses


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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.