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Voices from the Margins: A Critical Analysis of Identity and Experience in Select Hijra and Transgender Life Stories from India

Author(s) Ette Jyothsna, Dr. Jailaxmi Vinayak
Country India
Abstract The paper is a textual examination of socio-cultural conflict as described in some autobiographies of hijra and transgender people in India. Based on autobiographical writings by A. Revathi (The Truth About Me: A Hijra Life Story), K. S. Srinivasan (I Am Hijra: An Autobiography of a Hijra), A. N. Dutta (Transgender Lives: Superior, Subordinate, or Everyman), Amaya Anintha (Being a Hijra: The Intersection of Sexuality and Gender Identity in India) and R. Prabhakar (My Life as a Transgender Woman: An Autobiography), this paper examines the narrations by The study uses the qualitative narrative analysis technique to establish common themes of identity negotiation, family rejection, job discrimination, medical inequality, and education barriers. Results indicate that though third-gender people experience multifaceted systemic oppression, which can be traced to historical gender binaries, autobiographical narratives are effective tools of resistance, self-affirmation, and social advocacy. These autobiographical narratives break stereotypes that society has and shed light on multiple intersecting planes of marginalization (caste, class, gender), as well as on the importance of urgent changes to inclusive policy frameworks. The paper will support the current gender studies discourse by placing less privileged voices at the center and showing how individual stories can trigger social change in the current process of achieving gender justice and human rights acknowledgment in India.
Keywords hijra, transgender, autobiography, the third gender, socio-cultural conflicts, identity, marginalization, intersectionality, India, gender identity, discrimination, resilience, narrative analysis.
Published In Volume 16, Issue 1, January-June 2025
Published On 2025-06-04
Cite This Voices from the Margins: A Critical Analysis of Identity and Experience in Select Hijra and Transgender Life Stories from India - Ette Jyothsna, Dr. Jailaxmi Vinayak - IJAIDR Volume 16, Issue 1, January-June 2025. DOI 10.71097/IJAIDR.v16.i1.1697
DOI https://doi.org/10.71097/IJAIDR.v16.i1.1697
Short DOI https://doi.org/hbn72g
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