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<dc:title>A Literary and Social Depiction of an Indian City: "Masala" Eroticism and Perverse Realism in Raj Rao’s BomGay</dc:title>
<dc:creator>García Arroyo, Ana</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Raj Rao's fiction</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>BomGay/Bombay</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Section 377</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Ficción de Raj Rao</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>BomGay/Bombay</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>Sección 377</dc:subject>
<dc:description>BomGay is the major stage that the Indian English writer Raj Rao chooses in his literary&#xd;
work to represent the gay performances in Bombay. BomGay becomes an epitome of gay culture in&#xd;
India, which has to find its own (in)visible ways to survive, even today, when the oppressive section of&#xd;
the Indian Penal Code, 377, is still used to punish those who express their alternative sexualities. This&#xd;
paper examines the rich artistic performances of the gay underworld narrated in Rao’s fictional city of&#xd;
BomGay that accurately envision a particular face of urban India. Firstly, I will focus on how the picture&#xd;
of unpleasantness and nastiness of the Indian masses is depicted as erotically natural in Rao’s fiction.&#xd;
I will study the two major factors that always converge in the portrayal of the microcosm of BomGay,&#xd;
scatology and (homo)sexual explicitness, which provide the foundations for Rao’s erotic realism, in&#xd;
order to combat hegemonic discourse and social oppression.</dc:description>
<dc:description>BomGay es el principal escenario que el escritor indio, Raj Rao, elije en su obra literaria&#xd;
para representar al colectivo gay en Bombay. BomGay se convierte en un ejemplo de la cultura gay&#xd;
en India, que tiene que encontrar sus propias formas (in)visibles para sobrevivir, incluso hoy en día&#xd;
en que la sección 377 del Código Penal indio está todavía vigente y se utiliza para castigar a quienes&#xd;
expresan una sexualidad alternativa. Este artículo examina la riqueza artística de la subcultura gay que&#xd;
Rao narra a través de la ciudad ficticia de BomGay, que detalladamente describe una de las realidades&#xd;
del mundo urbano indio. Primero me centro en la representación de lo desagradable y lo repugnante de&#xd;
las masas de población india, que en la ficción de Rao se describen como elementos eróticos. Examino&#xd;
los dos factores que siempre convergen en el microcosmos de BomGay, el escatológico y una (homo)&#xd;
sexualidad explícita, que logran establecer las bases del realismo erótico en la obra del autor y combatir&#xd;
el discurso hegemónico y la opresión social.</dc:description>
<dc:date>2024-01-12T12:57:28Z</dc:date>
<dc:date>2024-01-12T12:57:28Z</dc:date>
<dc:date>2018-11</dc:date>
<dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/article</dc:type>
<dc:identifier>2386-3935</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8323</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>10.5209/CJES.56019</dc:identifier>
<dc:language>eng</dc:language>
<dc:relation>Complutense Journal of English Studies. 2018, V. 26, p. 65-78</dc:relation>
<dc:relation>https://doi.org/10.5209/CJES.56019</dc:relation>
<dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</dc:rights>
<dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
<dc:rights>Atribución 4.0 Internacional</dc:rights>
<dc:publisher>Ediciones Complutense</dc:publisher>
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