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Globalizing through the vernacular : kothis, hijras and the making of queer and trans identities in India / Aniruddha Dutta.

By: Publisher: India Bloomsbury Academic, 2025Description: xii, 240 pages 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789356406391
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Globalizing through the vernacularDDC classification:
  • 306.760954 23/eng/20240615
LOC classification:
  • HQ73.3.I4 D87 2024
Contents:
List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Toward a Theory of Vernacularization; 1. The Scalar Emergence of the Hijra; 2. Kothi and the Cartography of MSM; 3. Vernacularization and Non/Linear Gender Among Kothis; 4. Rupantarkami Narratives and the Attempted Standardization of Trans Interiority; 5. Refashioning Transgender: Pluralization and Re-Vernacularization; 6. Cis/Trans Divides and the Partial Erasure of the Kothi; Afterword: Afterlives of the Vernacluarized; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.
Summary: "This book analyzes the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ+ identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis, dhuranis and hijras, a spectrum of feminine-identified people usually assigned male at birth. Going beyond the well-known 'third gender' hijra community, this is the first book to study the discourses and practices of related but underrepresented groups like kothis and dhuranis in small-town and rural India while simultaneously examining their relation to and role within LGBT identity politics"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Figures;
List of Maps;
List of Tables;
Acknowledgements;
List of Abbreviations;
Introduction: Toward a Theory of Vernacularization;
1. The Scalar Emergence of the Hijra;
2. Kothi and the Cartography of MSM;
3. Vernacularization and Non/Linear Gender Among Kothis;
4. Rupantarkami Narratives and the Attempted Standardization of Trans Interiority;
5. Refashioning Transgender: Pluralization and Re-Vernacularization;
6. Cis/Trans Divides and the Partial Erasure of the Kothi;
Afterword: Afterlives of the Vernacluarized;
Notes;
Glossary;
References;
Index.

"This book analyzes the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ+ identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis, dhuranis and hijras, a spectrum of feminine-identified people usually assigned male at birth. Going beyond the well-known 'third gender' hijra community, this is the first book to study the discourses and practices of related but underrepresented groups like kothis and dhuranis in small-town and rural India while simultaneously examining their relation to and role within LGBT identity politics"-- Provided by publisher.