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Author(s): Hoshang Merchant
ISBN(s): 9780415484510, 0415484510
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 34.28 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415484510 
ISBN 13: 9780415484510
Author: Hoshang Merchant

The book argues that there is no monolithic homosexuality; there are only homosexualities, that is, there are as many reasons for being gay as there are gays. Some people are born gay, some have gayness thrust upon them, and some do, indeed, achieve to great gayness. Representation of homosexuality/homoeroticism, as it is understood today, is thus a western import. The act and public/social discourses on same-sex love are still illegal; it is, according to many, against the Indian ‘tradition’; and a sense of ‘history’ is seriously problematic when we dig out for a past tradition of homoerotic love and desire. Hoshang Merchant, through an examination of texts, films, poetry, attempts to analyse and crack the codes of sexual (mis)conduct in contemporary India, giving short histories of the fate of several gay writers and explaining the difficulties of ‘coming out’.

Forbidden Sex Texts New India s Gay Poets 1st Table of contents:

I: Book of the Self — Introduction
1. Subterranean Sex in the Subcontinent: Is Homosexuality ‘Indian’? (Personal Essay)
Appendices: (a) Homosexual/Dalit Literature
(b) Transforming Pedagogies
(c) Gays with Critical Disability
II: Book of the World — Introduction
2. Indian Narrativity: Fiction, Film, Theatre
3. Urdu Gay Literature: Poetry
4. Hindi Gay Literature
5. Gay Theatre
6. Gay Films
Appendices: (a) The Eunuch Festival of Aaravan
(b) Transsexual Hosts on TV Talkshows
(c) The Pakistan Poet as Eunuch: Ifti Nasim
(d) Gender-fuck in Namdeo Dhasal’s ‘Gandu Baghicha’
(e) Jameela Nishat: Muse as Poet
(f) Rukmini Bhaya Nair’s ‘Hermaphrodite’
(g) Satish Alekar’s Begum Barve
III: Book of the Soul — Introduction
7. Sultan Padamsee: A Pioneer Gay Poet?
8. The Strange Case of Jehangir Bhownagary (1921-2004)
9. Adil Jussawalla and R. Raj Rao: The Politics of the Avant-Garde
10. Agha Shahid Ali’s Gay Nation
11. The Anxiety of Coming Out: Vikram Seth
12. Suniti Namjoshi: Lesbian Love-songs
13. Dinyar Godrej and Ian Iqbal Rashid
14. The Art of Bhupen Khakhar

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