I actually remember reading about this community when I was quite young. I think it was before I even heard about transgender people in the west, or at least before I realised what that entailed.
I'm not sure I am up for the book at the moment, though. I'll read it at some point, though, if you think I'll like it.
Incidentally, but not entirely unrelatedly: have you read Cloud 9? Did I already ask you that?
No. Unless you mean Cloud Atlas, which I have read.
Ah, no. Cloud 9 is a play. It is a little heavy-handed at times, but interesting nonetheless. Part of the point of it is that it has some very clear instructions for those performing it to use men in the girl's part or a woman in a boy's part in order to highlight some points. It also made me blush, but that is beside the point. It also tries to tie gender relations to colonialism. As I said, it is heavy-handed, but it is also interesting. I haven't read anything quite like it.
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The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story by A. Revathi
- 17/11/2010 12:37:30 AM
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Interesting
- 17/11/2010 01:15:55 AM
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Re: It's the first such work in English here.
- 17/11/2010 01:18:17 AM
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Re: It's the first such work in English here.
- 17/11/2010 01:22:30 AM
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Re: Ooh I know what you're talking about. I haven't read it though.
- 17/11/2010 01:24:39 AM
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Re: Ooh I know what you're talking about. I haven't read it though.
- 17/11/2010 10:39:34 AM
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That reminds me of our production of the Taming of the Shrew back in secondary school.
- 17/11/2010 01:25:10 AM
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Re: That reminds me of our production of the Taming of the Shrew back in secondary school.
- 17/11/2010 10:40:48 AM
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Is that so weird though?
- 17/11/2010 08:55:13 PM
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I was supposed to have read Cloud 9 a couple of weeks ago for class.
- 17/11/2010 02:41:07 PM
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Re: I was supposed to have read Cloud 9 a couple of weeks ago for class.
- 17/11/2010 04:03:46 PM
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