Queering resistance
A Married Woman, Babyji and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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The fourth chapter grapples with representations of resistance enacted by homosexual and intersex characters in Babyji, A Married Woman, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and it addresses the multi-layered relationship between queerness and anti-heteronormativity, as well as between queerness and anti-normativity. Engaging with the large-scale collectivist protests and social upheavals in recent Indian history which serve as a backdrop for each of the three novels - the 1990 protests against the Mandal Commission, the demolition of the Babri Mosque in 1992, and the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the state of Gujarat respectively - the chapter examines the diverse, even contradictory, forms that queer resistance assumes in these works and it unpacks the ways in which the texts complicate our understanding of the relationship between freedom, equality and identity. In particular, the chapter brings to the fore the importance of examining the subversive contours of sexed, sexual and gender identities in relation to questions of caste, class, age and religion in contemporary India.

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