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Transgender India 2021 : Understanding Hijras and Sadhins through the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
Transgender India 2021 : Understanding Hijras and Sadhins through the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities

Transgender India 2021 : Understanding Hijras and Sadhins through the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities

Publication
Event Date: October 01, 2020 - October 01, 2020
Submission Deadline: October 01, 2020
Notification of Acceptance: October 30, 2020
Camera Ready Version Due: April 01, 2021




About

Chapters are invited for Transgender India, which examines hijras and sadhins from antiquity to the present, drawing on scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Contributions may explore a range of Indian transgender identities and experiences—including but not limited to individuals identifying as third gender, MTF, FTM, and nonbinary.


Call for Papers

A sampling of confirmed chapters includes:

  • “Reconceptualizing Identities through Transmasculinity in India: A Gender Revisionist Approach,” Rubina Iqbal, PhD, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • “Contradiction/Concurrence of Castration and the Fertile Phallus: A Transgender Reading of Ancient Indian Literature,” Ruman Sutradhar, PhD, Department of Political Science, Samuktala Sidhu Kanhu College, Alipurduar, West Bengal, India

  • “Understanding the Psychosocial Needs of Hjira Living with HIV in Hyderabad, India,” Sameena Azhar, PhD, LCSW, MPH, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University, New York, New York, USA

  • “Queer Futurities in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,” Anna Guttman, PhD, Department of English, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

  • “Sikhandi to Manobi: An Exploration of (Trans)Human Emotions through a Critical Study of Selected Transgender Biographies,” Bosudha Bandyopadhyay, PhD, Department of International Languages, Chitkara University, Punjab, India

  • “Victor Turner’s Theory of Liminality: A Tool to Study the Lives of Deirdre N. McCloskey, Paula Grieg, and Living Smile Vidya,” Ramya Sampath, PhD, Department of English and Foreign Languages, SRM University, Tamil Nadu, India

  • “Indian Influences and the Transgender Imagination in a Chinese Literary Classic: Journey to the West (西遊記),” Peter I-min Huang, PhD, Department of English, Tamkang University, New Taipei City , Taiwan



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