A critical reading of the life and struggle of a transgender through the eyes of A. Revathi in her autobiography the truth about me
A Hijra life story
Keywords:
critical reading, queer, suppression, autobiography, marginalization, traumaAbstract
The purpose of the paper is to study the life and struggle of transgenders and their community in India who are subjugated by the heteronormative patriarchal society and their stereotyped ideas and practices. The autobiography “is the first of its kind in English from a member of the Hijra Community”. The intension of the author is not to solicit sympathy but to make the heteronormative society aware that transgenders also have feelings, emotions and a normal life similar to theirs and long to be accepted.
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