![]() ![]() The Devourers, as the first text I turn to in this series, could not be more demonstrative of this sentiment. Werewolves are, in short, allegories of ineffable queerness. Last month, under Halloween’s full moon, I argued that werewolf stories relay non-binary desires and embodiments. “ Across India, in Kolkata and in quiet hinterlands, werewolves roam. ![]() When the novel comes up for air in modern India, it is a stunning queer romance and treatise on loneliness and identity. As the novel dips into the framework of stories within Alok’s larger narrative, a strange and brutal-and sometimes beautiful-history emerges of magical shape-shifters. The stranger tasks him with transcribing a series of handwritten manuscripts dating back to the eighteenth-century that tell the story of the stranger’s parentage. In Indra Das’s debut novel The Devourers (2015), professor of history Alok Mukherjee encounters a stranger who declares himself half-werewolf. Queer Moon Rising: Shape-Shifting Sideways in The Devourers by Indra DasĪcross India, in Kolkata and in quiet hinterlands, werewolves roam. ![]()
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