Secret writings of Hoshang Merchant /
Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early in his youth. A bard, a teacher, and a lover who has lived many lives, he is the quintessential gay who once cross-dressed, and yet defies categorization. Here he recounts his extraordinary life and splendid experiences ranging...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi, India :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Literature: A Different Muse: Oedipus Story as Detective Fiction ; Migritude of Migrating Swans: Yeats and Tagore ; `To the Rose upon the Rood of Time' ; St John of the Cross: Poems of Roy Campbell ; And Jesus Wept ... Poetry in a Time of Terror! Agha Shahid Ali ; Darwish/Ali's `Eleven Stars over Andalusia': First Impression ; Reviewing Translations: Some Thoughts
- Autobiography: The Gay Gaze:- India and I Share a Birthday ; I Visit Laxma's House ; My `Parsi English'
- Sexuality: Othering the Nation: 1,001 Nights: Queer Places, People, and Politics ; Indian Homoeroticism ; Sex in the Indian English Novel ; Gay Indian Poetry ; Pornography
- Matriarchy: Mothering the Nation:- Solaces of Matriarchy ; Sappho: Feminized Men and the Question of Flux ; Indian Masculinities: Beyond Gender and Matriarchy
- Postscript:- A Gay Lexicon ; My Secret Writing Life ; Chronology of the Complete Works of Hoshang Merchant.