Jha / Kurian New Feminisms in South Asia

Disrupting the Discourse Through Social Media, Film and Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-21077-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive articulations that represent an unprecedented surge of feminist response to the culture of sexual violence in South Asia. Here scholars across disciplines and international borders chronicle the expressions of a disruptive feminist solidarity in contemporary South Asia. They offer critical investigations of these newly complicated discourses across narrative forms – hashtag activism on Facebook and Twitter, the writings of diasporic writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Bollywood films like Mardaani, feminist Dalit narratives in the fiction of Bama Faustina, social media activism against rape culture, journalistic and cinematic articulations on queer rights, state censorship of "India’s Daughter", and feminist film activism in Bangladesh, Kashmir, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jha, Sonora

Kurian, Alka

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction (Alka Kurian and Sonora Jha)

1. Theoretical Imaginings: Third Wave South Asian Feminisms (Alka Kurian)

Part 1: Social Media

2. Why Loiter and the # Hashtag Revolution: Notes from the Field (Anubhav Pradhan)

3. From Aruna Shanbaug to Jyoti Singh: A Tale of Policy Change as Told Through Landmark Rape Cases in India (Bidisha Biswas)

4. Nobody’s Daughters: Social Media’s Feminist Response to BBC Documentary India’s Daughter (Sonora Jha)

5. 1979 and 2011: Legislating Sexuality and Violence: Tribal Women in Feminism (Samia Vasa)

[Dr. Nisha Garud, Dr. Rituparna Borah, and Dr. Subhalakshi Nandi (Potentially two chapters)]

Part 2: Film

6. Feminist Masculinism: Imagined Response to Violence Against Women in Pradeep Sarkar’s Hindi Film, Mardaani (Shreerekha Subramaniyan)

7. Silent Waters: Mapping Silence and Women’s Agency in Post-Partition Pakistan (Amrita Ghosh)

8. Construction of Feminist Agency in Contemporary Nepal, Kashmir, and Sri Lanka (Alka Kurian)

9. Legislating Sexuality and Violence: Tribal Women in Feminism (Shoba Sharad Rajgopal)

10. The Complexities of Transnational Female Solidarity in Driving with Selvi (Rajni Srikanth)

11. There Was Nothing Heroic about the War of Bangladesh (Or Any War for that Matter) (Elora Chowdhury)

Part 3: Literature

12. Toward a Diasporic Feminist Consciousness: Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland (Nalini Iyer)

13. The Whole Inside the Hole: Recent Telugu Dalit Women’s Revolutionary Life Writing (Bonnie Zare)

14. Assertions from the Margins: Dalit and Minority Women’s Narratives (Bharti Arora)

15. Masculinizing’ the Woman: Strategic De/Reconstruction of Gender in the Fiction of South Asian Women Writers (Afrinul Haque Khan)

Über Autor(innen)

Sonora Jha is a novelist and Associate Professor of Journalism at Seattle University, USA

Alka Kurian is a lecturer at the University of Washington Bothell, USA