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Criminal Love?
Queer Theory, Culture, and Politics in India

  • R. Raj Rao - Head, Department of English, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
October 2017 | 200 pages | SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
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Criminal Love? takes up the challenge of studying the wide gamut of lived reality of the Indian queer, against the backdrop of a set of theories. Written by a man who has been openly gay for the last 40 years, this book picks up issues, concepts, and theories within the realm of queer studies and dissects them against the day-to-day experiences of Indian queers. Digging deep into his own experiences and those of the people with whom he has come into contact, Rao highlights the sites of transgression within a seemingly monosexual society and analyzes all the aspects of the struggle of being queer in a repressive atmosphere.


 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction by Thomas Waugh
 
I: Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
 
II: Identities
 
III: Normativities
 
IV: Homosociality
 
V: Homophobia
 
VI: Lesbianism
 
VII: Perversion
 
VIII: Historiography
 
IX: The Politics of Section 377, IPC
 
Bibliography
 
Index

“India’s first and only gay theorist worth reading.”

Hoshang Merchant,
Poet and Former Professor, University of Hyderabad, India

“A courageous book that does not shy away from contested territory and will challenge our ideas of what it might mean to be ‘queer’.”

Ingrid Hotz-Davies,
Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany
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Criminal Love? takes up the challenge of studying the wide gamut of lived reality of the Indian queer, against the backdrop of a set of theories. Written by a man who has been openly gay for the last 40 years, this book picks up issues, concepts, and theories within the realm of queer studies and dissects them against the day-to-day experiences of Indian queers. Digging deep into his own experiences and those of the people with whom he has come into contact, Rao highlights the sites of transgression within a seemingly monosexual society and analyzes all the aspects of the struggle of being queer in a repressive atmosphere.


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ISBN: 9789386446497