Rohit K. Dasgupta (UK University of Glasgow)

Digital Queer Cultures in India

Politics, Intimacies and Belonging

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the everyday experience of queer Indian men on digital spaces. It explores how queer identities are formed in virtual spaces and how the existence of such spaces challenge and critique à â Ë Indianà â â -ness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 138mm x 216mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780367279882
• ISBN-10: 0367279886
• Artikelnr.: 57144578

Autorenporträt

Rohit K. Dasgupta is Lecturer in Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University, UK. He has previously lectured at the University of Southampton and University of the Arts, London. He is the co-editor of Masculinity and Its Challenges in India (2014) and Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art (2015), and has published essays in journals such as Convergence: International Journal of New Media Technologies; Digital Culture and Education; Economic and Political Weekly; Film Quarterly; International Journal of Fashion Studies; Theory, Culture and Society; South Asian History and Culture; and South Asian Review.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Introduction 1.
Postcolonial Residues and Contemporary Context 2. Media, Diversity and
Emergence of the Cyberqueer in India 3. Virtual Intimacies on Digital Queer
Platforms 4. 'Imagined' Queer Communities 5. Effeminophobia, Straight
Acting and Global Queering 6. Dissident Citizenship Conclusion: Pleasures
and politics of researching new queer media Appendixes. Bibliography. Index