Being Janana [electronic resource] : Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India.

Call Number	306.76/609542
Author	Nagar, Ila.
Title	Being Janana Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India.
Publication	Milton : Routledge, 2019.
Physical Description	1 online resource (229 p.).
Series	Theorizing Ethnography Ser.
Notes	Description based upon print version of record.
Contents	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
Summary	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.
Subject	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General Homosexuality India Lucknow. Sexual minorities India Lucknow. Masculinity India Lucknow. Gay men Language.
Multimedia	Taylor & Francis https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429340741 OCLC metadata license agreement http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf

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Summary	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.
Notes	Description based upon print version of record.
Contents	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
Subject	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General Homosexuality India Lucknow. Sexual minorities India Lucknow. Masculinity India Lucknow. Gay men Language.
Multimedia	Taylor & Francis https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429340741 OCLC metadata license agreement http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf