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Using the lenses of post-colonial and feminist theory, Kurian examines politically engaged, women-centred South Asian films. 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 and politics' of the everyday struggle of Indian women. The book analyzes the ways that `cultural workers' have tended to use subversive narratives as a tool of resistance. Narratives that are political, ideological, classed, raced and gendered offer the focus of this exploration. Through strategies of disclosure and documentation of memory, personal experiences, and imaginary events shaped by the larger historical, political, and cultural contexts, these discursive texts engage in the processes of struggle against a plethora of oppression: caste, class, religion, patriarch

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Author

Alka Kurian, Alka Kurian

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138788138

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, History