1st Edition
Queer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects
By Shraddha Chatterjee
Copyright 2018
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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Queer Politics in India simultaneously tells two interconnected stories. The first explores the struggle against violence and marginalization by queer people in the Indian subcontinent, and places this movement towards equality and inclusion in relation to queer movements across the world. The second story, about a lesbian suicide in a small village in India, interrupts the first one, and... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Post-script
Chapter 2: Fragmentary fields: a map of queer politics in India
Chapter 3: Queer/political/subject
Chapter 4: Inside the fold of re-presentations
Chapter 5: Towards sexual subaltern subjects
Chapter 6: Melancholy, uncertainty, responsibility
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Shraddha Chatterjee is currently a PhD scholar in Gender, Feminist, & Women’s Studies at York University, Toronto. She has previously trained in psychology, and her work is informed by Lacanian psychoanalysis, critical psychology, feminist and queer theory, and cultural studies. She is involved with feminist queer spaces in New Delhi and Kolkata.
