Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India

This book explores queer potentialities in the tribal folktales of India. It elucidates the queer elements in the oral narratives of four indigenous communities from East and Northeast India, which are found to be significant repositories of gender fluidity and non-normative desires. Departing from the popular understanding that ‘Otherness’ results largely from undue exposure to Western permissiveness, the author reveals how minority sexualities actually have their roots in aboriginal indigenous cultures and do not necessarily constitute a mimicry of the West. The volume endeavours to demystify the politics behind such vindictive propagation to sensitize the queerphobic mainstream about the essential endogenous presence of the queer in the spaces that are aboriginal. Based on extensive interdisciplinary research, this book is a first of its kind in the study of indigenous queer narratives. It will be useful to scholars and researchers of queer studies, gender studies, tribal and indigenous studies, literature, cultural studies, postcolonialism, sociology, political studies and South Asian studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge India
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2021
Authors:	Kaustav Chakraborty
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	198
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-55424-8
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-367-55424-0
Barcode:	9780367554248

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