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Narratives of Gendered Dissent in South Asian Cinemas by Alka Kurian, Alka Kurian is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>This book conducts a post-colonial, gendered investigation of women-centred South Asian films. In these films, the narrative becomes an act of political engagement and a site of feminist struggle: a map that weaves together multiple strands of subjectivity--gender, caste, race, class, religion, and colonialism. The book explores the cinematic construction of an oppositional narrative of feminist dissent with a view to elaborate a historical understanding and theorisation of the 'materiality a
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- Author
- Alka Kurian, Alka Kurian
- Publisher
- New York: Routledge
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781136466717
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- Science, Political Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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