India's Illicit Sexualities: Disruptive Queer Representations in Film and Fiction

这个项目探索了印度酷儿文本如何扰乱身份和审美范畴，因为印度将“非自然性行为”定为犯罪(IPC 377)。这里使用的术语“酷文”指的是电影或文学作品，它们含蓄或明确地挑战殖民地强制实施的规范性行为和性别观念。本文的目的是通过几个镜头来比较阅读这些文本和潜台词，包括审查制度、包括第377条在内的法律禁令，以及文本的时间和地理位置。因此，这些古怪的叙述将被视为抵制限制性性行为观念的方法论工具。该项目询问，这些文本是否纯粹是一股破坏稳定的力量，或者这些文本未能从本质上遵守单一的、与世隔绝的、受限制的印度同性恋身份，是否表明不可能约束本身的“非自然”。

This project explores how queer Indian texts disrupt identitarian and aestheticcategories in light of India's criminalization of "unnatural sex" (IPC 377). The term "queertexts" as used here refers to cinematic or literary works which implicitly or explicitlychallenge colonially enforced notions of normative sexuality and gender. The objective hereis to read these texts and subtexts comparatively through several lenses, including censorship,legal prohibitions including Section 377, and the temporal and geographic positionalities ofthe texts. These queer narratives will thus be looked at as a methodological tool of resistanceagainst restrictive notions of sexuality. The project asks whether these texts served as a purelydestabilising force, or whether the failure of these texts to essentially abide by a monolithic,sequestered, and constrained queer Indian identity speaks to the impossibility of constrainingthe "unnatural" in itself.