Love and Reparation: A Theatrical Response to the Section 377 Litigation in India Sheikh Danish
Love and Reparation: A Theatrical Response to the Section 377 Litigation in India Sheikh Danish Two plays about the legal battle to decriminalize homosexuality in India.On September 6, 2018, a…
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Love and Reparation: A Theatrical Response to the Section 377 Litigation in India Sheikh Danish
Two plays about the legal battle to decriminalize homosexuality in India.On September 6, 2018, a decades-long battle to decriminalize queer intimacy in India came to an end. "LGBT persons," the Court said, "deserve to live a life unshackled from the shadow of being 'unapprehended felons.'" But how definitive was this end? The Supreme Court of India ruled that Section 377, the colonial anti-sodomy law, violated the country's constitution.
How clear is the line between the past and the future? How far does the law's shadow fall? What does it mean to live with full sexual citizenship?In Love and Reparation, Danish Sheikh navigates these questions with a deft interweaving of the legal, the personal, and the poetic.
The two plays in this volume leap across court transcripts, affidavits (real and imagined), archival research, and personal memoir. Through his