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Gay Bombay : globalization, love and (be)longing in contemporary India / Parmesh Shahani

Shahani, Parmesh [Verfasser]

New Delhi, India [u.a.] : SAGE, 2008

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (349 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

81-321-0014-X ; 978-81-321-0014-0 ; 1-281-96353-4 ; 978-1-281-96353-6

Through a multi-sited ethnography in an online-offline community, Parmesh Shahani. examines how Internet technologies, the media industry, audiences and broader. socio-historical contexts shape gay identity in contemporary urban India. He realizes. that the identity of a gay man in the community is negotiated on the stability. of the idea of Indianness. For readers across the world focused on India, Gay. Bombay will serve as a memorable journey through various transitions in urban. India.