1st Edition
Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India
1. Introduction: Folktales, Non-normativity and the Queer Indigeneity 2. In the company of An-other: Methodology, Debates and Concerns 3. ‘Wandering Between Two Worlds’: ‘Mainstream’ Ethos, Transgression and Narratives of the Anarcho-dissidence in Toto 4. Discord as Defilement: Consensual Incest in Limbu Folktales and 'Mainstreaming' of the Feminine 5. Stages in the Proscription of Homoeroticity: Lepcha Folktales and Mythistory 6. Manly Women, Womanish Men: Genderqueer in Select Rabha Tales 7. Queer India as Neo-Bahujan: Towards a Possible Assembling
Biography
Kaustav Chakraborty is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Southfield (formerly Loreto) College, Darjeeling, India. He was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India. His recent publications include Tales and Alternatives: Revisiting Select Tribal Folktales (2017), The Politics of Belonging in Contemporary India: Anxiety and Intimacy (2019), Indian Drama in English (2014) and Tagore and Nationalism (co-edited, 2017). His research interests include indigenous literature and culture, queer theory, and cultural studies.
