Chocolate and Other Writings on Male Homoeroticism

Informationen zum Autor Pandey Bechan Sharma Klappentext A 1928 collection of Hindi short stories and excerpts by a canonical writer, Pandey Bechan Sharma "Ugra," that sparked modern India's first public debate on male homosexuality. Zusammenfassung A translation of a 1927 short-story collection that was the first work of Hindi fiction to focus on male same-sex relations; its publication sparked Indias first public debates about homosexuality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Note on This Translation xi Introduction xv Original Prefatory Materials 1 Chocolate 11 Kept Boy 19 We Are In Love with Lucknow 30 Waist Curved Like a She-Cobra 37 Discussing Chocolate 47 O Beautiful Young Man 52 Dissolute Love 58 In Prison 67 From Letters of Some Beautiful Ones 73

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• Authors: Pandey Bechansharma, Sharma, Pande Bechan Sharma, Pandey Bechan Sharma
• Assisted by: Ruth Vanita (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2009
• EAN: 9780822343615
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4361-5
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Bezug zu Schwulen, Belletristik in Übersetzung, Belletristik: Erzählungen, Kurzgeschichten, Short Stories, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren