About the Book : Deviant Sexualities and Artistic Representations in
Contemporary India
Representation of non-normative sexualities is still a tantalizing dream in
India, even within the oblique and supposedly more liberal platforms like art
and literature. Catering to this need, this study focuses on the exploration of
the deviant sexualities in cinema, photography and literature, specially in the
Indian context. Unfortunately, even within the queer artistic explorations,
hijras have not been much represented and therefore the first part of the book
aims to excavate the multiplicity of the transgender lives by analysing various
art forms, having transgender cinema and hijra photographic series as the major
thrust areas. These