I have been reading some very well written stories by Vijai Dan Detha, described as 'one of India's most iconic and iconoclastic writers', and as they say in that burger ad, 'I'm lovin' it.'
One of Detha's earlier stories was made into the Bollywood film 'Paheli'
The book I'm absorbed in is 'New Life', and the cover story, so to speak, is a good example of queer literature. A girl is brought up by her greedy father as a man. and believes that she is male, until after her wedding ... and then... it's a wonderfully potent tale with mustaches, male egos, ghosts, and even a sex change ...
The stories are actually Rajasthani and Gujjar folktales, and it's refreshing to read these subaltern stories.
The book I'm absorbed in is 'New Life', and the cover story, so to speak, is a good example of queer literature. A girl is brought up by her greedy father as a man. and believes that she is male, until after her wedding ... and then... it's a wonderfully potent tale with mustaches, male egos, ghosts, and even a sex change ...
The stories are actually Rajasthani and Gujjar folktales, and it's refreshing to read these subaltern stories.
My favourite line in the book "If women marry each other, then men will have to look for a rat hole"
"(Queer literature is) any writing written by dominant or marginalized groups that moves beyond the boundaries of heterosexism."
2 comments:
These days friend,
Lucky are those who get the time to relish good literature. I am the unlucky one
who has free time to rad good books? only those who have little to do
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