Negotiating Queer Identity and Marriage of Convenience: A study of Marriage of a Thousand Lies

Abstract

This study's primary goal is to highlight the difficulties and issues LGBT people experience. In this study, the researcher examines the ways in which the novel Marriage of a Thousand Lies discursively constructs queer concerns and themes. The novel selected for this study offers an opportunity to investigate the queer issues of closet, coming out, marriage of convenience and how these issues discursively constructed by author in SJ Sindu’s Marriage of a Thousand Lies. The researcher main objective is to examine how the novelist uses linguistic and other techniques in the novel under study to portray queer issues and experiences. The theoretical foundation for study is provided by queer theory. The researcher also uses Critical Stylistics, Lesley Jeffries’ Ten tools, as a method of data analysis that focuses on analyzing a text's linguistic and stylistic elements to understand texts' deeper meanings as well as the social and cultural settings in which they are situated. Considering the goal of the research, a qualitative method is used to examine the selected texts. To obtain the data for this study, primary and secondary sources were both used.