Queer Representation in Literature and Popular Culture
Dhishna Pannikot, Tanupriya (Eds.)
by Sandra Jacobo (Penn State University), Dhishna Pannikot (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India), Tanupriya (CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR), Sanjana Chakraborty (National Institute of Technology Sikkim, India), Dhananjay Tripathi (National Institute of Technology Sikkim, India), Ayse Irem Karabag (York University, Toronto), Avijit Pramanik (Ramkrishna Mahato Government Engineering College, Purulia), Iraboty Kazi (University of Western Ontario), Kayla Reed (Grinnell College), Abigail Waldron (Horror Press LLC), Ashmita Biswas (St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata)
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'Queer Representation in Literature and Culture' offers a timely and critical exploration of how queerness is depicted, negotiated, and resisted across diverse literary and cultural texts. Bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives, the volume examines queer identities, desires, and politics through the lenses of decoloniality, and intersectionality. With contributions that span literature, cinema, digital media, and popular culture, this book foregrounds voices and narratives that challenge heteronormative, and patriarchal frameworks. Accessible yet scholarly, it is an essential resource for those interested in the intersections of gender, sexuality, culture, and power in contemporary discourse.
Preface
Dhishna Pannikot and Tanupriya
National Institute of Technology Karnataka & CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR
PART 1: QUEER POSSIBILITIES: POWER DYNAMICS AND AGENCY IN CINEMA AND LITERATURE
Chapter One
Discipline or Abuse: Policing the Gender Narratives of Queer Identities and Body Image Through Funny Boy and The Carpet Weaver
Sanjana Chakraborty and Dhananjay Tripathi
National Institute of Technology Sikkim, India
Chapter Two
(Im... -) Mobile Sexualities and Queer Possibilities in Angry Queer Somali Boy (2019) by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
Ayse Irem Karabag
York University, Toronto
Chapter Three
Unveiling the Embodied Nexus: Interrogating the Interplay of Queer and Crip Identities in the Cinematic Landscape of Margarita with a Straw
Avijit Pramanik
Ramkrishna Mahato Government Engineering College, Purulia
Chapter Four
Shahria Sharmin’s Call Me Heena: Decolonial Heterotopic Space of the Photograph and Representation of the Hijra
Iraboty Kazi
University of Western Ontario
PART 2: EMBODYING INTERSECTIONALITY
Chapter Five
Liberated from the Binary: An Interrogation of Gender in Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts and The Deep
Sandra Jacobo
Penn State University
Chapter Six
Trans and Asexual Representation: Between Oversexualization and Dehumanization
Kayla Reed
Grinnell College
Chapter Seven
The Monstrous Rainbow Swastika: The Horror Genre’s Queer Nazi versus Historical Fact
Abigail Waldron
Horror Press LLC
PART 3: VERNACULAR PERSPECTIVES
Chapter Eight
Macho Girl to Poster Girl: Precarious Lives and the Heteronormative Social Order in Himanjali Sankar’s Talking of Muskaan (2014)
Ashmita Biswas
St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata
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Dhishna Pannikot is an Associate Professor in English in the School of Social Sciences & Management, National Institute of Technology Karnataka. She specializes in travel writing, cultural studies, gender studies and comparative literature. She completed her MA, MPhil, and PhD at Pondicherry Central University and won the gold medal for the Best Meritorious PhD in 2010. She won the Venus International Foundation award, “Young Woman in Language Studies,” for her contribution to and achievement in the field of English Language in 2017. She has widely travelled to countries including Sri Lank... a, Malaysia, and Indonesia to give talks at conferences and present papers. She won the best paper award at the IEDRC conference in Bali, Indonesia, in 2016. She is guiding ten research scholars in multidisciplinary areas of literature. She is a member of professional bodies including the Indian Association for Women’s Studies, ASLE India, the International Economics Development Research Centre, and the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS). She had served as a resource person at numerous national and international conferences in India and abroad. She has published a book on 'Outcome Based Education: Towards a Pedagogic Shift' in 2016. She has published in various national and international journals, including Scopus publications.
Tanupriya is an Assistant Professor with the Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR campus. She is an awarded gold medalist for her MPhil in English. She was awarded a JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization) fellowship for attending a conference at Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan. She has published her works in various peer-reviewed Scopus-indexed journals. Her book chapters are published with Springer, Temple University Press, Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan. She is an editorial board member for the 'Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages'. Her research interests are Queer visual culture, Female and Queer Body Image, Trans sexualities and writing the self, and varied aspects related to frameworks of gender and sexuality.
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Middle Passage, Caribbean Studies, Speculative Fiction, Gender Studies, Black Feminism, Black Queer Studies, Black Trans Studies, Fantasy
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Language and Linguistics
Series
Series in Critical Media Studies
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Book Title
Queer Representation in Literature and Popular Culture
ISBN
979-8-8819-0286-5
Edition
1st
Number of pages
146
Physical size
236mm x 160mm