Unravelling the Queer Space: Understanding Sexuality through the Works of Janice Pariat

Neha Grace Sajan

doi:10.24113/ijellh.v9i5.11058

Abstract

The project entitled “Unravelling the queer space: Understanding sexuality through the works of Janice Pariat” to examine the elements of sexual being from a queer perspective. There is always a politics that happens within the space of one’s sexual and spiritual prominence. Thereby, a binary construction always happens and a stereotypical connotation happens for the same. Homosexuality is always subjected to suppression and non-normative within the society that upholds homophobia, heteronormativity and hetero-centrism. These are the results of the culturally imposed norms on the society. Understanding the deviance that happens in one’s sexuality is an important area of concern. Talking about these aspects free from bias and prejudice is the freedom that can be gained. Society always has a violent approach towards people who deviate from the accepted norms leading to marginalization. One of the important factors that sideline with this idea is the impact of religion on an individual. Spiritual space and belief system are induced right from the childhood. Religious texts clearly define sexualities that deviate from the expected norms as abnormal or a taboo. The study is to break down the binary existence of one’s sexual and spiritual space and how the deviance in sexualities pave way to attain a new spiritual growth.

Highlights

The concept of lesbianism does not just mean the attraction that two women share for each other
Adrinne Rich in the 1980, talked about the initial shift of the lesbian history where the idea of ‘Lesbian Continuum’. Her essays “Compulsory heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” there by talked about the idea of naturalness of homosexuality and that, there is innate lesbian behavior in all women. This further paved way to look at the concept of lesbian identity and homosexuality from a different perspective
It was said that many women, who did not satisfy e-ISSN: 2582-3574 p-ISSN: 2582-4406

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Introduction

The concept of lesbianism does not just mean the attraction that two women share for each other. Judith Butler thereby talked about the idea of gender as performative and fluid and thereby to look at gender and sexual identities from a different- perspectives that flows as time and space changes. Theoretical framework and Methodology This paper aims to look at the idea of sexuality from a nuanced perspective giving importance to lesbian sexual identity and thereby looking at the concept of spiritual e-ISSN: 2582-3574 p-ISSN: 2582-4406

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