Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History
by Ruth Vanita, Saleem Kidwai (Editor)
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Same-Sex Love in India presents a stunning array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature. Translated from more than a dozen languages and drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and modern fictional traditions, these writings testify to the presence of same-sex love in various forms since ancient times, without overt persecution. This collection defies both stereotypes of Indian culture and Foucault's definition of homosexuality as a nineteenth-century invention, show more uncovering instead complex discourses of Indian homosexuality, rich metaphorical traditions to represent it, and the use of names and terms as early as medieval times to distinguish same-sex from cross-sex love. An eminent group of scholars have translated these writings for the first time or have re-translated well-known texts to correctly make evident previously underplayed homoerotic content. Selections range from religious books, legal and erotic treatises, story cycles, medieval histories and biographies, modern novels, short stories, letters, memoirs, plays and poems. From the Rigveda to Vikram Seth, this anthology will become a staple in courses on gender and queer studies, Asian studies, and world literature. show lessTags
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This book is non fictional stories and contribution of various authors , there writing, there ahead of thinking, there fight against system and government for there writing, there fight against Radical religion sect like RSS for the pride community. Stories are taken from the start. Example of Mahabharata and pride community relationship. Other religions and there relationship and, how certain sections of society they are not able to digest that. There are 45 different sex according to religious books mentioned stories but only 23 are known till now and LGBTQIA+ id short version of letting people know. The fight against people who deny such love and want to kill and harm those people. Author covers story and writing from all over India show more to different languages and region and show us how intellectuals feels and some show, the protest and fight against the people who doesn't believe that same sex and think of it as a disease and not how there children is not normal having the feeling of Inclination to be a homogeneous not heterogeneous. Although i personally thought that in few stories depiction is manipulative and forced to reader's to get a momentum in there side. show less
This book is non fictional stories and contribution of various authors , there writing, there ahead of thinking, there fight against system and government for there writing, there fight against Radical religion sect like RSS for the pride community. Stories are taken from the start. Example of Mahabharata and pride community relationship. Other religions and there relationship and, how certain sections of society they are not able to digest that. There are 45 different sex according to religious books mentioned stories but only 23 are known till now and LGBTQIA+ id short version of letting people know. The fight against people who deny such love and want to kill and harm those people. Author covers story and writing from all over India show more to different languages and region and show us how intellectuals feels and some show, the protest and fight against the people who doesn't believe that same sex and think of it as a disease and not how there children is not normal having the feeling of Inclination to be a homogeneous not heterogeneous. Although i personally thought that in few stories depiction is manipulative and forced to reader's to get a momentum in there side. show less
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Ruth Vanita is Professor of Liberal Studies at the University of Montana
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- 891.1 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Indo-Iranian
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- PK5461 .S26 — Language and Literature Indo-Iranian languages and literatures Indo-Iranian philology and literature Indo-Aryan literature Modern Indo-Aryan literature
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