228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
228 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Being Janana focuses on same-sex desiring male-bodied subjects in Lucknow, India, and explores how they make meaning in the marginalization of their desire through language performativity. Along with their desire for other men, jananas maintain ostensibly heteronormatively and culturally defined masculine positions. This book argues for an intersectional approach to understanding... Read more
1. Introduction: Entering the world of jananas; 2. Janana stories: Living as a janana; 3. Jananas and hijras: Perpetual conflict and attraction; 4. The janana community of practice: How the janana world works; 5. Negotiating identity through varying gender marking; 6. To feel like a woman: Violence and formation of the janana subject; 7. Janana subalterns; 8. Epilogue.
Biography
Ila Nagar is Assistant Professor of Hindi and South Asian Cultures at The Ohio State University, USA.
