Same-sex desire in Indian culture : representations in literature and film, 1970-2015

Oliver Ross

This book explores representations of same-sex desire in Indian literature and film from the 1970s to the present. Through a detailed analysis of poetry and prose by authors like Vikram Seth, Kamala Das, and Neel Mukherjee, and films from Bollywood and beyond, including Onir's My Brother Nikhil and Deepa Mehta's Fire, Oliver Ross argues that an initially Euro-American "homosexuality" with its connotations of an essential psychosexual orientation, is reinvented as it overlaps with different elements of Indian culture. Dismantling the popular belief that vocal gay and lesbian politics exist in contradistinction to a sexually "conservative" India, this book locates numerous alternative practices and identities of same-sex desire in Indian history and modernity. Indeed, many of these survived British colonialism, with its importation of ideas of sexual pathology and perversity, in changed or codified forms, and they are often inflected by gay and lesbian identities in the present. In this account, Oliver Ross challenges the preconception that, in the contemporary world, a grand narrative of sexuality circulates globally and erases all pre-existing narratives and embodiments of sexual desire.

specificaties
  • Boek
  • Engels
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • 205 p: ill

praktische informatie

ISBN Nummer
9781349571918
Boekcode
IHLIA Homodok cat. (ross-o/sam) b # ODE3 niet uitleenbaar
Taal publicatie
eng [Engels]
Hoofdtitel
Same-sex desire in Indian culture : representations in literature and film, 1970-2015
Algemene materiaalaanduiding
2 [Boek]
Eerste verantwoordelijke
Oliver Ross
Plaats van uitgave
Houndmills, UK
Uitgever
Palgrave Macmillan
Jaar van uitgave
2016
Pagina's
205 p
Collatie - Illustraties
ill
Auteur Achternaam
Ross
Auteur Voornaam
Oliver
Prod country
uk
Samenvatting - Tekst
This book explores representations of same-sex desire in Indian literature and film from the 1970s to the present. Through a detailed analysis of poetry and prose by authors like Vikram Seth, Kamala Das, and Neel Mukherjee, and films from Bollywood and beyond, including Onir's My Brother Nikhil and Deepa Mehta's Fire, Oliver Ross argues that an initially Euro-American "homosexuality" with its connotations of an essential psychosexual orientation, is reinvented as it overlaps with different elements of Indian culture. Dismantling the popular belief that vocal gay and lesbian politics exist in contradistinction to a sexually "conservative" India, this book locates numerous alternative practices and identities of same-sex desire in Indian history and modernity. Indeed, many of these survived British colonialism, with its importation of ideas of sexual pathology and perversity, in changed or codified forms, and they are often inflected by gay and lesbian identities in the present. In this account, Oliver Ross challenges the preconception that, in the contemporary world, a grand narrative of sexuality circulates globally and erases all pre-existing narratives and embodiments of sexual desire.
Opmerkingen - Tekst
Bibliogr.: p. 187-198

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