Digital Queer Cultures in India

Name: Digital Queer Cultures in India
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Digital Queer Cultures in IndiaPolitics, Intimacies and Belonging\nAuthor(s): Rohit K. Dasgupta\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781138220348, 978-1138220348\nSynopsis\nSexuality in India offers an expression of nationalist anxieties and is a significant marker of modernity through which subjectivities are formed among the middle class. This book investigates the everyday experience of queer Indian men on digital spaces. It explores how queer identities are formed in virtual spaces and how the existence of such spaces challenge and critique Indian-ness. It also looks at the role of class and intimacy within the discourse. This work argues that new media, social networking sites (SNSs), both web and mobile, and related technologies do not exist in isolation; rather they are critically embedded within other social spaces. Similarly, online queer spaces exist parallel to and in conjunction with the larger queer m.