Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2021

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Publisher Quality
Book Size:
198 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000288957
Related ISBNs:
9780367541835, 9781003093497, 9780367554248
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Kaustav Chakraborty, The right of Kaustav Chakraborty to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies
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