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1 online resource |
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Literature: A Different Muse: Oedipus Story as Detective Fiction ; Migritude of Migrating Swans: Yeats and Tagore ; ̀To the Rose upon the Rood of Time' ; St John of the Cross: Poems of Roy Campbell ; And Jesus Wept ... Poetry in a Time of Terror! Agha Shahid Ali ; Darwish/Ali's ̀Eleven Stars over Andalusia': First Impression ; Reviewing Translations: Some Thoughts -- Autobiography: The Gay Gaze:- India and I Share a Birthday ; I Visit Laxma's House ; My ̀Parsi English' -- Sexuality: Othering the Nation: 1,001 Nights: Queer Places, People, and Politics ; Indian Homoeroticism ; Sex in the Indian English Novel ; Gay Indian Poetry ; Pornography -- Matriarchy: Mothering the Nation:- Solaces of Matriarchy ; Sappho: Feminized Men and the Question of Flux ; Indian Masculinities: Beyond Gender and Matriarchy -- Postscript:- A Gay Lexicon ; My Secret Writing Life ; Chronology of the Complete Works of Hoshang Merchant |
| Summary |
Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early in his youth. A bard, a teacher, and a lover who has lived many lives, he is the quintessential gay who once cross-dressed, and yet defies categorization. Here he recounts his extraordinary life and splendid experiences ranging across countries and cultures. His is a story of the prejudice and neglect that are part of everyday gay life, and how he channelled his despair into creating poetry. He quotes Rumi, Ghalib, and Mir, and writes with searing honesty about his long and short love affairs |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Merchant, Hoshang, 1947-
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| SUBJECT |
Merchant, Hoshang, 1947- fast |
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Homosexuality -- India
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Sexual ethics.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Indic fiction (English) -- History and criticism
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Sex in literature.
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English literature
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Homosexuality
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Indic fiction (English)
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Sex in literature
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Sexual ethics
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Social conditions
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India -- Social conditions -- 1947- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064952
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India
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rath, Akshaya K., editor
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| ISBN |
9780199086962 |
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0199086966 |
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0199465967 |
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9780199465965 |
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