Dibyesh Anand / Queering the Self, Querying the Nation

Queer is not only a fixed identity that is non-heterosexual but a continuing process that challenges heteronormative-patriarchal discourses and practices. Using auto-ethnography, Anand will put forward a conception of queering that necessitates querying exclusionary and dehumanising notions of collective identity categories such as that of the nation.

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