Shyam Selvadurai’s Novels: A Study of Hurdles in Following Queer Desires
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2019, Vol 24, Issue 1
Abstract
This paper focuses on the socio-cultural and historical hurdles that act to restrict queer tendencies. This paper is mainly based on Shyam Selvadurai’s novels Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens. This paper highlights the significance of the prejudices that the characters of Shyam Selvadurai’s novels are made to face. It also deals with the great difficulties and hurdles that the queer folk have to endure to satisfy the demands of their culture. This paper also looks into how sex and queer desires were subject to a whole range of repressions. It also discusses the social, cultural and political hurdles that make a queer man’s life in utter difficulty.The paper also examines how society and state institutions intervened to create so many hurdles for the gay community.)
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Deepak Jose Vadakoot, Dr TK Pius
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