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Same-Sex Desire in Indian Culture = Representations in Literature and Film, 1970-2015 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Same-Sex Desire in Indian Culture/ by Oliver Ross.
Reminder of title:	Representations in Literature and Film, 1970-2015 /
Author:	Ross, Oliver.
Description:	XI, 205 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Literature, Modern—20th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56692-8
ISBN:	9781137566928

Same-Sex Desire in Indian Culture = Representations in Literature and Film, 1970-2015 /
Ross, Oliver.

Same-Sex Desire in Indian CultureRepresentations in Literature and Film, 1970-2015 /[electronic resource] :by Oliver Ross. - 1st ed. 2016. - XI, 205 p.online resource.

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.

ISBN: 9781137566928

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-1-137-56692-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1254198
Literature, Modern—20th century.

LC Class. No.: PN770-779

Dewey Class. No.: 809.04

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