TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nagar,Ila
TI  - Being Janana: Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India
T2  - Theorizing Ethnography Ser
SN  - 9781000657142
AV  - HQ73.3.I42 L83 2019eb
U1  - 306.76/609542 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Milton
PB  - Routledge
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Homosexuality
KW  - India
KW  - Lucknow
KW  - Sexual minorities
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Language
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on translation, pronouns, and names; 1 Introduction: entering the world of jananas; 2 Janana stories: living as a janana; 3 Jananas and hijras: perpetual conflict and attraction; 4 The janana community of practice: how the janana world works; 5 Negotiating identity through varying gender marking; 6 To feel like a woman: violence and the formation of the janana subject; 7 Janana subalterns; Epilogue; Appendix 1: rules of gender agreement in Hindi; Glossary; Index
N2  - Being Janana focuses on same-sex desiring male-bodied subjects in Lucknow, India, and explores how they make meaning in the marginalization of their desire through language performativity. Along with their desire for other men, jananas maintain ostensibly heteronormatively and culturally defined masculine positions. This book argues for an intersectional approach to understanding janana life worlds and situates janana subjectivity in dialogue with social, cultural, linguistic, and legal happenings. In engaging with the full complexity of janana identities and experience, Ila Nagar calls for a reassessment of gender categories and a new understanding of power and sexuality amidst emerging Indian modernities. Derived from ethnographic research conducted over a period of twelve years, this book also reflects on the interaction between social actors and researchers, and critically examines the use of ethnography as a method in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. It will be of interest to scholars from Anthropology, Asian Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Linguistics
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429340741
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -