Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-223).
Contents:
Literature : a different muse. The Oedipus story as detective fiction -- Migritude of migrating swans : Yeats and Tagore -- `To the rose upon the rood of time' -- St John of the Cross : poems of Roy Campbell -- And Jesus wept ... poetry in a time of terror! / Agha Shahid Ali -- Darwish/Ali's `Eleven stars over Andalusia' : first impression -- Reviewing translations : some thoughts -- Autobiography : the gay gaze. India and I share a birthday -- I visit Laxma's house -- My `Parsi English' -- Sexuality : othering the nation. 1,001 nights : queer places, people, and politics -- Indian homoeroticism -- Sex in the Indian English novel -- Gay Indian poetry -- Pornography -- Matriarchy : mothering the nation. Solaces of matriarchy -- Sappho : feminized men and the question of flux -- Indian masculinities : beyond gender and matriarchy -- Postscript. Gay lexicon -- My secret writing life -- Chronology of the complete works of Hoshang Merchant.
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