Hoshang Merchant papers
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Identifier: 7861
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Scope and content
Collection contains papers, correspondence, clippings, and photos that document Hoshang Merchant's poetry, family, travels, and personal life.
Dates
- 1958 - 2018
Creator
- Merchant, Hoshang, 1947-. (Person)
- Bombay Poets Archive (Organization)
Language of Material
In English.
Biographical / Historical
Hoshang Merchant is known as India's first openly gay poet. He was educated in Mumbai and in the USA, and has traveled an taught widely, now residing in Hyderabad. Merchant describes his writing as 'therapeutic.'.
Extent
8 cubic feet. (8 cubic feet.)
Separated Materials
Publications removed from the collection and cataloged individually in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
Separated Publications
- Bhownagary, Jehangir Shapurji. Poems, 1997
- Bhownagary, Freny. Poems, 1997
- Merchant, Hoshang. In-discretions: Anais Nin, 1990
- Merchant, Hoshang. Flower to Flame, 1992
- Ed. Hoshang Merchant. Yaraana: Gay Writing from India, 1999
- Merchant, Hoshang. Bellagio Blues, 2004
- Merchant, Hoshang. Sufi Tree, 2008
- Nishat, Jameela. A Poem Slumbers in My Heart, 1999
- Nishat, Jameela. Lava, 2000
- Hyman, Timothy. Bhupen Khakhar, 1998
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)