(Hi) Stories of Desire - Sexualities and Culture in Modern India

Book Specification Item Code: NAV694 Author: Rajeev Kumaramkandath and Sanjay Srivastava Publisher: Cambridge University Press Language: English Edition: 2020 ISBN: 9781108494410 Pages: 251 Cover: HARDCOVER Other Details 9.20 X 6.00 inch Weight 470 gm Book Description About the Book (Hi)Stories of Desire situates questions of sexuality in the larger domain where they are conditioned by and, in turn, also condition historically and culturally produced landscapes of being, doing, and desiring. The volume draws upon multi-disciplinary frameworks of analysis - including history, anthropology, literary studies, queer studies, and psychoanalysis - to provide a pan-Indian account of the making of sexual cultures. Based on original research, the chapters foreground sexuality as a significant site for the making of regional, national, and personal modernities. Sexuality research in India tends to oscillate between the binaries of Western meta theories and the valorization