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T1 A Literary and Social Depiction of an Indian City: "Masala" Eroticism and Perverse Realism in Raj Rao’s BomGay
T2 Una representación literaria y social de una ciudad india: Erotismo Masala y realismo perverso en BomGay de Raj Rao
A1 García Arroyo, Ana
K1 Raj Rao's fiction
K1 BomGay/Bombay
K1 Section 377
K1 Ficción de Raj Rao
K1 BomGay/Bombay
K1 Sección 377
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
K1 Cultura
K1 Culture
AB BomGay is the major stage that the Indian English writer Raj Rao chooses in his literarywork to represent the gay performances in Bombay. BomGay becomes an epitome of gay culture inIndia, which has to find its own (in)visible ways to survive, even today, when the oppressive section ofthe Indian Penal Code, 377, is still used to punish those who express their alternative sexualities. Thispaper examines the rich artistic performances of the gay underworld narrated in Rao’s fictional city ofBomGay that accurately envision a particular face of urban India. Firstly, I will focus on how the pictureof unpleasantness and nastiness of the Indian masses is depicted as erotically natural in Rao’s fiction.I will study the two major factors that always converge in the portrayal of the microcosm of BomGay,scatology and (homo)sexual explicitness, which provide the foundations for Rao’s erotic realism, inorder to combat hegemonic discourse and social oppression.
PB Ediciones Complutense
SN 2386-3935
YR 2018
FD 2018-11
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8323
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8323
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 09-may-2024