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This book situates current research into the sexual cultures of South Asia within a cross-cultural perspective. The book argues that in societies undergoing rapid social and cultural change, the construction of sexuality and the discourses that gather around it have a fundamental connection with an entire range of processes - social, cultural, economic, political and global - with which people must engage. The contributors have studied sexuality as a site around which social and cultural ideas may be expressed.
Controlling the Ganymedes: The Colonial Gaze in J. R. Ackerley's Hindoo Holiday
Controlling the Ganymedes: The Colonial Gaze in J. R. Ackerley's Hindoo Holiday
The tradition of the colonial travel journal, by the early twentieth century, was well-institutionalised as a genre; travel journals produced, for the European, the world ‘out there’. British writers such as Richard Burton in the nineteenth century, and T. E. Lawrence, E. M. Forster and J. R. Ackerley in the twentieth century, engaged in the production of the Orient, speaking on its behalf, purporting to represent its people and culture. However, as Edward Said explains, such production relies upon a:
flexible positional superiority, which puts the Westerner in a whole series of possible relationships with the Orient without ever losing him the relative ...
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