• Bornali Nath Dowerah

The dimension of Indian young adult literature is far away from the mainstream literature. Nevertheless, there have been few known contributions of writers of post Raj like R. K. Narayan, Ruskin Bond and Mulk Raj Anand but it is not certain that their target readers are exclusively meant for adolescent readership. In fact, their readership is not directed by anybody in the Indian scenario. Since last decades there have been a tremendous change in the arena of young adult literature and that is the depiction of queer characters in the Indian English fiction. Here the word ‘queer’ has been used as an umbrella term for the LGBT community. Two novels “Slightly Burnt”(2014) by Payal Dhar and “Talking of Muskaan” (2014) by Himanjali Sankar have been selected for analysing queer spaces as exemplary of contemporary young adult Indian English fiction. Extending through the methodology of queer theory this article interrogates the narrative voices that claim heterogeneity as normal against homosexuality. Moreover, an attempt has been made to study and bring out the element of ambivalence delineated in the authorial voice, queer representations and the adolescent perspective.

Queer, heteronormativity, adolescent, narrativity, ambivalence.

"Foregrounding Queer Spaces in Contemporary Indian English Fiction for Young Adults", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.941-949, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907C90.pdf

"Foregrounding Queer Spaces in Contemporary Indian English Fiction for Young Adults", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp941-949, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907C90.pdf