About: The Boyfriend (novel)

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dbo:abstract	The Boyfriend, written in 2003 is R. Raj Rao's first novel. Based in Mumbai, India, it discusses the city's gay subculture against a backdrop of the 1992 riots and discusses caste, class and masculinities. (en)
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dbp:quote	The national and, more significantly, the nationalist frameworks of postcolonial India prolong the colonial production of normative gender and sexuality. In such a structural duplication of the social norm, reproductive heterosexuality attains legitimacy as the unique, “natural” choice of the postcolonial nation. (en) Rao’s Bombay, however, is a step behind these exciting times of queer self assertion; the most that the gay community can expect out of the urban locus is a sense of connectedness, a shared invisibility in the mainstream spaces and a shared “haunting” of urban queer spaces. (en)
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dbp:source	—Sucheta Mallick Choudhuri in Transgressive territories: queer space in Indian fiction and film, Iowa Research Online, University of Iowa, 2009 (en) —Sandeep Bakshi in Fractured Resistance: Queer Negotiations of the Postcolonial in R. Raj Rao's The Boyfriend, South Asian Review, Volume 33, October 2012 (en)
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