Anil Pradhan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6654691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anil Pradhan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anil |
| FAMILY NAME | Pradhan |
| SIGNATURE | PRADHAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jadavpur University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8998-8697 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Let Us Hold Hands’
This article contributes to the growing literature on youth sexualities and intimacy, by centring the lived experiences of self-identified gay youth in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. It draws on interview narratives of thirteen gay youth between the ages of 19 and 26, living in Kolkata, to unpack two inter-locking ways in which these sexual minority youth co-construct intimacy within the urban space: (a) intimacy as verbal and non-verbal dis…
Coming of Age in the Diaspora
Bollywood films are a unique visual repository of India’s public imaginings, and they can, therefore, serve as guides to how India sees its past, present, and aspirational future (Dwyer, 2010). Through close intertextual readings of three key popular films depicting British Indian youth, this article explores the ways in which the UK-born/raised second-generation Indian diaspora has come to be represented within Bollywood. We argue that inter-gen…
Screaming with Joy’
Allen Ginsberg's Howl presents a complex idea of queer identity politics restructuring American urbanity. In a de Certeauan portrayal of 'queer' sexual encounters, the actors tend to subvert notions of the heteronormative hegemony over sexuality, sexual bodies, and masculinities. The writing back by the marginalised sexual 'Others' employs the agency of representing pain as liberating, subversive, and pleasurable. These ecstatic performances reve…
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Screaming with Joy’
Allen Ginsberg's Howl presents a complex idea of queer identity politics restructuring American urbanity. In a de Certeauan portrayal of 'queer' sexual encounters, the actors tend to subvert notions of the heteronormative hegemony over sexuality, sexual bodies, and masculinities. The writing back by the marginalised sexual 'Others' employs the agency of representing pain as liberating, subversive, and pleasurable. These ecstatic performances reve…
Coming of Age in the Diaspora
Bollywood films are a unique visual repository of India’s public imaginings, and they can, therefore, serve as guides to how India sees its past, present, and aspirational future (Dwyer, 2010). Through close intertextual readings of three key popular films depicting British Indian youth, this article explores the ways in which the UK-born/raised second-generation Indian diaspora has come to be represented within Bollywood. We argue that inter-gen…
Let Us Hold Hands’
This article contributes to the growing literature on youth sexualities and intimacy, by centring the lived experiences of self-identified gay youth in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. It draws on interview narratives of thirteen gay youth between the ages of 19 and 26, living in Kolkata, to unpack two inter-locking ways in which these sexual minority youth co-construct intimacy within the urban space: (a) intimacy as verbal and non-verbal dis…
Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Human sexuality (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work)