| 词条 | R. Raj Rao |
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| name = R. Raj Rao | image = R. Raj Rao, Goa 2015.jpg | birth_name = | birth_date = 1955 | birth_place = Bombay, India | notableworks = The Boyfriend | occupation = Writer, professor of literature | influences = }}R. Raj Rao (born 1955) is a writer, poet and teacher of literature and "one of India's leading gay-rights activists."[1] His 2003 novel The Boyfriend is one of the first gay novels to come from India.[2][3] Rao was one of the first recipients of the newly established Quebec-India awards.[4] Personal lifeR. Raj Rao was born in Bombay, India. He earned a PhD in English from the University of Bombay in 1986 and received the Nehru Centenary British Fellowship for his post-doctoral research at the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, UK[5] He attended the International Writing Program, Iowa, in 1996.[5] His works include Slide Show (poems). He has edited Ten Indian Writers in Interview and co-edited Image of India in the Indian Novel in English (1960–1980). He works as a professor and head of the English Department at the University of Pune. Rao is openly gay.[6] On the recurring themes of homosexuality in his works, Rao says: "I am myself a poet, novelist, playwright and writer of non-fiction. Similarly, my teaching and research interests in queer theory and queer literature are a direct and natural outcome of my being gay and imaginatively tackling the subject in my fiction, poetry and plays."[7] His poems appeared in many prestigious poetry anthologies like The Dance of the Peacock besides other noted journals and anthologies.[8][9] Rao in the queer scenePoems from Rao's BOMGaY collection served as the basis for Riyad Vinci Wadia's film Bomgay (1996),[10] said to be India's first gay film. The Boyfriend was his first novel.[11] It was released with fanfare by Penguin India all over the country in 2003. Filled with irreverent, dry humour and devoid of sentimentality, The Boyfriend is a tragi-comic love story set in the jumbled up heart of Mumbai. It also deals with unsparing irony the realities of caste, class, religion, masculinity and the gay subculture in India. It created quite a stir when it first appeared and was discussed in many prominent magazines as a guide to the then underground gay subculture in Bombay.[12][13] It went on to be used as a model for the queer scene in India in researches in the field of queer studies.[14][15][16] Rao published the non-fiction work Whistling in the Dark in 2009, the novels Hostel Room 131 in 2010 and Lady Lolita's Lover[17] in 2015. Following the success of The Boyfriend, Rao founded the Queer Studies Circle at Pune University.[18] Rao was one of the first to offer a course on LGBT literature at the university level in India.[19] Rao first offered it in 2007, after years of resistance on the part of his academic superiors. He said: "It's strange how the academic fraternity that has always been quick to accept all kinds of literature — Marxist, feminist, Dalit — had a huge reservation when it came to queer literature. For years, the Board of Studies refused to let us start the course saying that 'Indian students do not need it'. Finally we clubbed it with Dalit literature and started it under the genre of Alternative Literature."[20] Works
References1. ^Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Speaker Profiles," April 2004, accessed 15 May 2011 2. ^{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-02-07/india/28358351_1_gay-issues-love-story-gay-theme|title=Authors get bold as gay literature picks up in India|last=Arora|first=Kim|date=7 February 2011| work= The Times of India| accessdate=15 May 2011}} 3. ^Pink Pages: The Boyfriend, accessed 15 May 2011 4. ^Concordia University: "Quebec-India Visiting Scholar Awards Program Welcomes Two Professors," January 29, 2008 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081023022346/http://mediarelations.concordia.ca/pressreleases/archives/2008/01/quebecindia_visiting_scholar_a.php |date=23 October 2008 }}, accessed 15 May 2011 5. ^"Raj Rao to read his plays today," April 1, 2011, accessed 15 May 2011 6. ^{{citation |title=Too queer to be true |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Too-queer-to-be-true/Article1-604269.aspx |first=Ashok Row |last=Kavi |date=26 September 2010 |accessdate=9 January 2011 |periodical=Hindustan Times}} 7. ^1 Concordia Journal: Karen Herland, "International Interdisciplinary," February 14, 2008, accessed 15 May 2011 8. ^{{cite news|last1=Grove|first1=Richard|title=The Dance of the Peacock:An Anthology of English Poetry from India|url=http://hiddenbrookpress.com/Book-Indo-EnglishPoetry.html|accessdate=5 January 2015|issue=current|publisher=Hidden Brook Press, Canada}} 9. ^{{cite web|last1=Press|first1=Hidden Brook|title=Hidden Brook Press|url=http://hiddenbrookpress.com|publisher=Hidden Brook Press|accessdate=5 January 2015}} 10. ^Internet Movie Database: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115603/ Bomgay (1996)], accessed 15 May 2011 11. ^Sandeep Bakshi, Fractured Resistance: Queer Negotiations of the Postcolonial in R. Raj Rao’s The Boyfriend, South Asian Review, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2012 12. ^Hindu Literary Review: "First Impression," September 7, 2003, accessed 15 May 2011 13. ^BBC: Zubair Ahmed , "Gay Bombay comes out," June 19, 2003, accessed 15 May 2011 14. ^Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies: Terry Goldie, "R. Raj Rao's The Boyfriend: A Model of the Indian Homosexual?," September 10, 2006, accessed 15 May 2011 15. ^Iowa Research Online: Sucheta Mallick Choudhuri, "Transgressive territories: queer space in Indian fiction and film," 2009, accessed 15 May 2011 16. ^York University: "Sexuality and Literature: Sexology vs. Fiction", accessed 15 May 2011 17. ^Harper Collins India: [https://harpercollins.co.in/book/lady-lolitas-lover/ "Lady Lolita’s Lover"], accessed 20 August 2018 18. ^Times of India: "Gay rights groups hail bid to amend law," July 27, 2002, accessed 15 May 2011 19. ^The Punekar: "Marathi teacher takes charge of English department at Pune University," October 15, 2010 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831002122/http://thepunekar.com/2010/10/15/marathi-teacher-takes-charge-of-english-department-at-pune-university/ |date=31 August 2011 }}, accessed 15 May 2011 20. ^The Punekar: "Gay-lesbian course at UoP sets an example for other universities," July 16, 2009 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404014028/http://www.thepunekar.com/2009/07/16/gay-lesbian-course-at-uop-sets-an-example-for-other-universities/ |date=4 April 2012 }}, accessed 15 May 2011 External links
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