"Jack and Johnny went up the hill": Emergent homonationalism and the construction of a palatable queer subject in post-Section 377 Bollywood cinema.
This article interrogates an archetype it terms the "palatable queer subject" in post-Section 377 Bollywood cinema. It advances that the production of this subject reflects and reifies India's emergent homonationalism in the wake of the 2018 decriminalization of homosexual relations. The palatable q...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Postcolonial Writing Vol. 60; no. 5; pp. 675 - 689 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2024
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