Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India
- Author: Chakraborty, Kaustav
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Contents
- 1. Introduction: Folktales, Non-normativity and the Queer Indigeneity
- 2. In the company of An-other: Methodology, Debates and Concerns
- 3. 'Wandering Between Two Worlds': 'Mainstream' Ethos, Transgression and Narratives of the Anarcho-dissidence in Toto
- 4. Discord as Defilement: Consensual Incest in Limbu Folktales and 'Mainstreaming' of the Feminine
- 5. Stages in the Proscription of Homoeroticity: Lepcha Folktales and Mythistory
- 6. Manly Women, Womanish Men: Genderqueer in Select Rabha Tales
- 7. Queer India as Neo-Bahujan: Towards a Possible Assembling