Ruth Vanita

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Ruth Vanita (* 1955 ) is an Indian university professor and author.

Vanita co-founded Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society in New Delhi in 1978 . She wrote articles for this magazine from 1979 to 1990. She was an associate professor at Miranda House and at the University of Delhi . She is currently a professor at the University of Montana . Vanita is the author of several books and many literary translations. She has also published many articles on Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf and Indian literature (such as in the Shakespeare Survey , in the Studies in English Literature 1500-19000 , in the Comparative Drama , the Postcolonial Studies , GLQ and in the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion ).

Works

  • Reclaiming Gay India ,
  • Gay historians , (together with Saleem Kidwai ), QueerIndia , March 5, 2005
  • In Search of Answers: Indian Women's Voices from Manushi , (together with Madhu Kishwar ), London: Zed Books, 1984, revised edition, Horizon Books, New Delhi, 1991
  • A Play of Light: Selected Poems , Penguin India, 1994
  • Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination , New York: Columbia University Press, 1996
  • Same-Sex love in India: Readings from Literature and History , (together with Saleem Kidwai), 2000, London: Palgrave Macmillan, New Delhi: Macmillan; Revised edition, Penguin India, 2008, ISBN 0-312-22169-X
  • Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society , New York: Routledge, 2002
  • Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West , New York: Palgrave-Macmillan; New Delhi: Penguin India, 2005
  • Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Culture , New Delhi: Yoda Press, 2006

Translations

  • Rajendra Yadav , Strangers on the Roof , translated by Ruth Vanita, Penguin India, 1994
  • Vijay Dan Detha , Dilemma and Other Stories , translated by Ruth Vanita, Manushi Prakashan, 1997
  • Pandey Bechan Sharma "Ugra", Chocolate and Other Stories on Male-Male Desire , translated with an introduction by Ruth Vanita, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006
  • The Great Feast (English translation of Mannu Bhandari's Hindu Roman, Mahabhoj ), New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2003
  • Twenty Short Stories from Premchand, Penguin India
  • About Me (Apni Khabar) , autobiography by Pande Bechan Sharma Ugra, Penguin India

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Queerindia
  2. ↑ Ayyar, Raj, Interview with Ruth Vanita, GayToday , Found July 11, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Vanita, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1955