Volume III Special Issue III March 2023

Name of Author : Dipali Krunal Soni

Title of the paper : Cultural studies in Literature: A specific study on Laxmi Narayans Me Hijra & Me Laxmi

Abstract: As womens life documents made it possible to gain acceptance in the larger area, transgender life documents started to move up the graduation of recognition in the last many times. Women enjoy a fluid self but a transgender enjoys double fluidity by transgressing the heteronormative body which is reflected in their narrative. In the struggles of the hijra community to establish hijras identity and day-to-day conflicts, famed hijra activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathis benefactions have been immense. The gender perspective is related to the idea of gender identity in society. Gender isnt a natural and predetermined order but the result of what places men and women perform. assaying Tripathis autobiography Me Hijra, Me Laxmi through Butlers ideas, this research concludes that Laxmi questions and attempts to lessen the traditional notion of gender places. Trans narratives develop a binary knowledge, they arent a mirror of the cultural norms therefore they have binary knowledge – tone as culturally defined and self as different from the cultural definitions.

Keywords : Identity, Gender, Sex, Transgender, Hijra, Performativity, Heterosexual

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Page Number : 199-202