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Neoliberalism and Same-Sex Desire in the Fiction and Public Cultures of India after 1991
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Ray, Sohomjit
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1374877786
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2013, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
Abstract
In 1991, the Indian economy underwent an extensive liberalization, with changes like greater deregulation, privatization, and dismantling of welfare-state social provisions becoming commonplace. In the following years, representations of same-sex desire became more visible and more prevalent in the cultural and literary landscape of India. This dissertation views these two developments to be interrelated, and examines how the sociocultural sphere is often determined, influenced, and brought into being by socioeconomic factors. I analyze four key texts (Ash Kotak’s Hijra, a British-Indian play; Neel Mukherjee’s Past Continuous, a novel written in English; Tarun Mansukhani’s Dostana, a Hindi film; and Tilottama Majumdar’s Chander Gaye Chand, a novel written in Bengali) to argue that the representation of same-sex desire in India after 1991 emphasizes, in different ways, the neoliberal ideology of individuality and personal responsibility. I conclude by noting that representations of same-sex desire that endorse the neoliberal ideology do not forward the cause of social and economic justice, or the equality of non-heterosexual people.
Committee
Kevin Floyd (Advisor)
Pages
193 p.
Subject Headings
Glbt Studies
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Literature
;
South Asian Studies
Keywords
neoliberalism
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same-sex desire
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Indian fiction
;
Indian public culture
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Ray, S. (2013).
Neoliberalism and Same-Sex Desire in the Fiction and Public Cultures of India after 1991
[Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1374877786
APA Style (7th edition)
Ray, Sohomjit.
Neoliberalism and Same-Sex Desire in the Fiction and Public Cultures of India after 1991.
2013. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1374877786.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Ray, Sohomjit. "Neoliberalism and Same-Sex Desire in the Fiction and Public Cultures of India after 1991." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1374877786
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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