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The World That Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia

by Aditi Angiras , Akhil Katyal
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789353574574
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins
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  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: INR 650.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 294 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthologies (multiple authors)

'A bold and necessary correction to the subcontinent's poetry canon.' - Jeet Thayil This first-of-its-kind anthology brings together the best of contemporary queer poetry from South Asia, both from the subcontinent and its many diasporas.The anthology features well-known voices like Hoshang Merchant, Ruth Vanita, Suniti Namjoshi, Kazim Ali, Rajiv Mohabir as well as a host of new poets. The themes range from desire and loneliness, sexual intimacy and struggles, caste and language, activism both on the streets and in the homes, the role of family both given and chosen, and heartbreaks and heartjoins. Writing from Bangalore, Baroda, Benares, Boston, Chennai, Colombo, Dhaka, Delhi, Dublin, Karachi, Kathmandu, Lahore, London, New York City, and writing in languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Urdu, Manipuri, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and, of course, English, the result is an urgent, imaginative and beautiful testament to the diversity, politics, aesthetics and ethics of queer life in South Asia today.

Katyal, Akhil: - Akhil Katyal is a writer, translator and scholar. He has published three books of poems: Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems (2020), How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross (2018) and Night Charge Extra (2015). He was a 2016 International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa International Writing Program and was awarded the Vijay Nambisan Poetry Fellowship in 2021. He translated Ravish Kumar's Ishq Mein Shahar Hona as A City Happens in Love (2018). In 2020, he co-edited The World That Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia. His work has appeared in several pivotal anthologies, including The Penguin Book of Indian Poets edited by Jeet Thayil. He is the Associate Professor of Literature at BITS Law in Mumbai.

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