Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India
1st edition
by Kaustav Chakraborty (Author)
This
book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India. It
elucidates the queer elements in the oral narratives of four indigenous
communities from East and Northeast India, which are found to be
significant repositories of gender fluidity and non-normative desires.
Departing from the popular understanding that ‘Otherness’ results
largely from undue exposure to Western permissiveness, the author
reveals how minority sexualities actually have their roots in aboriginal
indigenous cultures and do not necessarily constitute a mimicry of the
West. The volume endeavours to demystify the politics behind such
vindictive propagation to sensitize the queerphobic mainstream about the
essential endogenous presence of the queer in the spaces that are
aboriginal.
Based on extensive interdisciplinary research, this
book is a first of its kind in the study of indigenous queer narratives.
It will be useful to scholars and researchers of queer studies, gender
studies, tribal and indigenous studies, literature, cultural studies,
postcolonialism, sociology, political studies and South Asian studies.
DETAILS:
Year: 2021
Pages: 208
Language: English
Format: PDF
Publisher: Routledge India
ISBN-10: 367541831
ISBN-13: 978-0367541835, 9780367541835
ASIN: B08MBFGHDQ
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