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By Omar Kasmani
Published: 06 October 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2731-7
... Urdu qissah literature transgender masculinity ...
Published: 06 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027317-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2731-7
... Agar's Tale is a nineteenth-century Urdu qissah that recounts the adventures of Agar, a prince who was born as a girl. From a modern queer/trans liberatory standpoint, the pervasive queerness of this story appears warrant a celebratory reading. However, this reading of Agar's Tale takes...
Book Chapter

By Omar Kasmani
Published: 06 October 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2731-7
... the limits of the scholarly periodization of a homophilic past cut off from a homophobic present, and disclose the past's desire to make its own future. Sufi queer history South Asia gender sexuality Agar's Tale is a nineteenth-century Urdu qissah that recounts the adventures of Agar...