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Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India | 
| Author: Parmesh Shahani
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 632588
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0761936483
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9780761936480
ASIN: 0761936483
Publication Date: April 14, 2008
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Product Description
Using a combination of multi-sited ethnography, textual analysis, historical documentation analysis, and memoir writing, the author provides macro and micro perspectives on what it means to be a gay man located in Gay Bombay at a particular point in time. Specifically, he explores what being gay means to members of Gay Bombay and how they negotiate locality and globalization, their sense of identity as well as a feeling of community within its online/offline world. On a broader level, he critically examines the formulation and reconfiguration of contemporary Indian gayness in the light of its emergent cultural, media, and political alliances.
Key Features
- Offers an exciting path breaking ethnography, which combines a large macro sweep with an intensely personal narrative. The author's memories flow in and out of the main narrative to create a distinct reading experience.
- Presents a unique and timely look at urban contemporary Indian sexuality
- Provides an integrated approach that illuminates how new media technologies, the media industry, audiences, and broader socio-historical contexts shape gay identity in contemporary urban India
- Gives a different perspective on globalization in post-liberalization urban India, as India re-positions itself as a global superpower. How are its minorities being treated? How are they asserting themselves in this new imagination of the nation-state?
- Weaves in personal experience that helps us understand male same-sex desire in relation to customary experiences in a city like Bombay
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Comprehensive and Sensitive Account of Gay Bombay April 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This path-breaking study offers an exhaustive list of references and some very condensed academic perspectives, but balances these with personal recollections - 'memoryscapes' - and responses from interviewees. The first of its kind, this book explores the factors behind Gay Bombay, an online and offline social forum for 'gay' (and the term is problematised thoroughly in the opening section) people in the city. A very interesting read, both for the academic and the casual observer. I thought the best thing about this was the variety of perspectives presented, as well as some really moving personal accounts.
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