Transcultural Negotiations of Gender: Studies in (Be)longingTranscultural Negotiations of Gender probes into how gender is negotiated along the two axes of ‘belonging’ and ‘longing’– the twin desires of being located within a cultural milieu, while yearning for either what has passed by or what is yet to come. It also probes into the category of ‘transculturality’ itself, by examining how not only does it pertain to the coming together of cultures from diverse spatial locations, but how shifts over time and changing performative modes and technological means of articulation, within what may be presumed to be the same culture, can also lead to the ‘transcultural’. The volume comprises four sections. Part I, ‘(Be)longing in Time’, examines negotiation of gender through transcultural acts of myths, rituals and religious practices being revised and revisited over time. Part II, ‘(Be)longing in Space’, studies how gender is renegotiated when people from different spaces interact, as also when public spaces and domains themselves become sites of such negotiations. In Part III, ‘Performing (Be)longing’, such transcultural negotiations are located in the context of changing modes of performance, considering particularly that gender itself is performative. The final section, ‘Modernity, Technology and (Be)longing’, traces how gender becomes transculturally negotiated in a space like India, with the advent of modernity and its companion technology. |
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Contents
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Religion Gender and The Public Domain in India | 25 |
Karnads Hidden Polemic | 39 |
DeMasculinizing Mythologies and ReligioSexual Rites | 46 |
Part II Belonging in Space | 56 |
NineteenthCentury Irish Women in South America | 57 |
The Case of Radhika Santwanam | 114 |
The Reinvention of Mohiniyattam in Early TwentiethCentury Kerala | 123 |
13 Wayward Women Wicked Singing | 134 |
Perpetuating Notions of Ideal Male and Female Behaviour Through Specific Emotions Highlighted in Acting in Mayabazar | 145 |
15 The Relevance of Gender in the Narco CorridoNarco Novel | 159 |
Part IV Modernity Technology and Belonging | 169 |
A Critique of the Womens Question in the Nationalist Discourse | 170 |
The Evolution of the Concept of Muse in Modern Bengali Poetry | 181 |
Gender Issues in India and Japan | 70 |
8 Rewriting GenreGender? Crime Fiction by Women Authors from India and Latin America | 82 |
Up to a Certain Point | 93 |
Rethinking Gender Space and Identity | 103 |
Part III Performing Belonging | 113 |
Technology Empowerment and Changing Spaces Women Occupy | 190 |
The New Woman in PostLiberalization Womens Magazines in India | 201 |
20 Googling Baby | 211 |
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Transcultural Negotiations of Gender: Studies in (Be)longing Saugata Bhaduri,Indrani Mukherjee No preview available - 2015 |
Transcultural Negotiations of Gender: Studies in (Be)longing Saugata Bhaduri,Indrani Mukherjee No preview available - 2016 |