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Embedding Subversion and Gender Identity: 'Ulti', the Secret Language of the Hijra-Koti Community
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Embedding Subversion and Gender Identity: 'Ulti', the Secret Language of the Hijra-Koti Community opens a window on to the world of the hijra-koti community in West Bengal. This book seeks to contextualize the community within their sociocultural and multilingual ecosystem, and understand the significance of their relationship with Ulti, the secret language spoken by them. Employing a combination of ethnographic and linguistic methodologies of data elicitation, the examines how social conditions lead to the development of a language's lexicon and grammar, as well as the role language plays in building a subculture and constructing the identity of its speakers.
The book is especially interested in examining the relationship between language and gender - as well as between social gender and grammatical gender - in the context of Ulti. Bangla is a language without grammatical gender; it does not provide hijras or kotis with the linguistic tools required to express their gender. For a person assigned male at birth who identifies as a feminine, femme or trans person, it becomes imperative to find the language to express and locate themselves in relation to the cisnormative and heteropatriarchal narrative that defines the mainstream. Ulti was developed to accomplish this: an ideologically subversive language that creates a discursive space for hijras and kotis within the grammatical framework of Bangla. Ulti also has a rare linguistic feature - a symbolic (feminine) gender marker called mashi that indexes the gender identity of its speakers. Ulti shows us how a silenced community created a tongue of their own to give voice to their suppressed selves; how language helps forge bonds of solidarity and community, which in turn strengthens the language itself.Author: Enakshi Nandi
Publisher: Tulika Books
Published: 08/20/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9788195639250
About the Author
Enakshi Nandi has earned her PhD from the Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her PhD is on the grammar and use of Ulti, a secret language spoken by the Koti-Hijra community in West Bengal. Her areas of interest include sociolinguistics, language documentation and queer linguistics.
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