Dr. Subhadeep Paul is assistant professor of English in the School of Literature, Language and Cultural Studies at Bankura University.Goutam Majhi is assistant professor of English at Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, in affiliation with the University of Calcutta.

• Chapter 1: The Formless Shape: An Analysis of Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Body Artwork from an “Eerie” perspective Chapter 2: Sanitising the Erotic: Women’s Body in the Ritual Performance of Jagoi RaasChapter 3: Objectification of the Female Breast: A re-reading of Mahasweta Devi’s Breast Giver and Yogesh Pagare’s MulakaramChapter 4: Critiquing the Socio-cultural Gender Dynamics of Select Bengali Ghost FictionChapter 5: Zami: Embracing the BodyChapter 6: “Straight But Not Narrow”: An Ally Confronts Homophobia through LitostChapter 7: Cultural Currencies and Pathways to Queer Acceptance in RwandaChapter 8: Being Single: The Plight of Spinsters and Divorcees in Urban KolkataChapter 9: Bodies and Identity: The Dynamics of female identity in third generation Nigerian writingChapter 10: Motherhood—An Inseparable Fragment of Feminist Discourse in Mariama Ba’s So Long a LetterChapter 11: Problematizing the Gaze: Cindy Sherman’s Depiction of Femininity in The Complete Untitled Film Stills Chapter 12: Virulent Mistresses: Bionomical-Opposition in Select Renaissance Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi and Judith LeysterChapter 13: Unveiling the Veil: A Study of the Political Role of Muslim Women in Medieval IndiaChapter 14: The Shade: A Trans* Experience of Creative Resistance Chapter 15: Teary-Eyed Tough Guys: Why Manshaming and Feminist Sons Don’t Go Together?

Beyond the Heteronorm contributes significantly to a range of emergent and established fields such as feminist literary studies, queer studies, and transgender studies. Interrogating the tenets of heteronormativity, this timely collection calls attention to the ways in which diverse creative works and cultural practices engage critical alterities.