narratives of three generations of urban middle-class - eTheses ...

smell of the fragrance Natasha wears implies intense homosocial-homoerotic intimacy.
In Gouri’s words,
“The top that Natasha gifted to me as a parting gift has been worn by her many a
times before. I wished to keep it with me as it would often make me feel she is
around. I haven’t washed it as it would give me the smell of her favourite
perfume.”
The physical distanciation of two homosocial intimate bodies and their narrativized
visceral sensuality and emotion, engender a familiar heterosexual romantic script and
suggest the possibility of homoeroticm in the homosocial.
Photo-2: Illustrates a homosocial and homoerotic gift from third generation Priya to third
generation Gouri.
[Source: Gouri Ganguly’s collection of gifts]
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