gender in Hijra's speech?

[Allen Thrasher]

There might be something about this in the context of the 19th century in Richard Burton's long essay about eunuchs and the other notes to his translation of the Thousand and One Nights.

Allen




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 From: Peter Friedlander <peterfriedlander at YAHOO.COM.AU>
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk 
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 3:43 AM
Subject: [INDOLOGY] gender in Hijra's speech?
 

Dear Colleagues,
A Japanese colleague interested in gendered language forms asked me about how Hijra's speak, as men or women. 
As far as I know in Hindi hijras speak using female agreements for first person, but what about other South Asian languages, any suggestions on anybody who has written on this?
Also are the precedents from Sanskrit or Tamil literatures of  men speaking as women and adopting language forms distinctive of women?
regards
Peter
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Dr Peter G. 
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Senior Lecturer in Hindi and Buddhist 
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Asian Studies
School of Social 
Sciences
La Trobe University, VIC 
3086
Tel: 61 + 3 9479 
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Email p.friedlander at latrobe.edu.au


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