Beyond desire: sexuality in modern Tamil literature

Keshavamurthy, Kiran

Moving away from a dominant cultural equation of love, desire, and intimacy with marriage, the book offers a radical view that reinstates the body as an enduring symbol of desire. Drawing on the works of seven twentieth-century male Tamil writers beginning with K.P. Rajagopalan, this book explores a spectrum of male-female intimacies wherein desire, liberated from the sexual act, acquires its o...

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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