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Intertextual Sexuality

2005; Wiley; Volume: 15; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jlin.2005.15.1.125

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Kira Hall,

Digital Games and Media

Journal of Linguistic AnthropologyVolume 15, Issue 1 p. 125-144 Intertextual Sexuality Kira Hall, Kira HallSearch for more papers by this author Kira Hall, Kira HallSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 June 2008 https://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2005.15.1.125Citations: 71AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract This article examines articulations of class, identity, and desire as performed by a community of kotisin northern India, a transgender group that impersonates a second transgender group known as hijras in a staged event called "hijra-acting." Through a linguistic parody of lower-class hijras performing a birth celebration for their upperclass patrons, kotis critique the class-based animosity between hijra and gay sexualities in contemporary India, spoofing the sexual desires associated with both groups as inferior to their own. The analysis demonstrates that identity and desire are best understood as mutually constituted intertextual phenomena, with both importantly reliant on ideological linkages of language and socioeconomic class for their articulation. References Bakhtin, Mikhail M. 1981 The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Michael Holquist, ed. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, trans. 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