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Being Janana - Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India (Hardcover)
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Being Janana - Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India (Hardcover)
Series: Theorizing Ethnography
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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 janana
life worlds and situates janana subjectivity in dialogue with
social, cultural, linguistic, and legal happenings. In engaging
with the full complexity of janana identities and experience, Ila
Nagar calls for a reassessment of gender categories and a new
understanding of power and sexuality amidst emerging Indian
modernities. Derived from ethnographic research conducted over a
period of twelve years, this book also reflects on the interaction
between social actors and researchers, and critically examines the
use of ethnography as a method in sociolinguistics and linguistic
anthropology. It will be of interest to scholars from Anthropology,
Asian Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Linguistics.
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