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



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Autore: Ross Oliver Visualizza persona
Titolo: Same-Sex Desire in Indian Culture : Representations in Literature and Film, 1970-2015 / / by Oliver Ross Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 205 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/353
Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern—20th century
Oriental literature
Languages
Language and languages
Ethnology—Asia
Motion pictures—Asia
Literature—History and criticism
Twentieth-Century Literature
Asian Literature
Asian Languages
Asian Culture
Asian Cinema and TV
Literary History
Classificazione: LIT000000LIT008020PER004030
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Same-Sex Desire in Indian Culture  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-137-56692-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910255230703321
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