ENGLISH 4DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Shyam Selvadurai, Sari, Heteronormativity

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 4DD3
• Professor: Dr. Roger Hyman

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Openly gay sri lanken man autobiography but there are similarities. Is a parallel to arjie not identical and shouldn"t be read as an. Funny term for homosexual destabilizing the binary of man and female. Bride bride game where arjie is a bride and wear a sari. The groom is not seen as important it"s the bride"s day. The groom works in the office, tells everyone what to do without understood it he performed and satirized masculinity simultaneously. The bride her job was to get pretty and be the centre of attention. Shows how gender can change we perform differently based on situations doesn"t like this because it is shameful that the son is being feminine. Binaries assume that gender identity and sexual identity is fixed it is not, there is no point in trying to pin it down to fixed roles.