ISBN:
9783031395086
Language:
English
Pages:
259 Seiten
Series Statement:
Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.76
Keywords:
Asian history
;
Asiatische Geschichte
;
Cultural studies
;
Gender Studies: Gruppen
;
Gender studies, gender groups
;
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
;
Kulturwissenschaften
;
LGBTQ+ / Untersuchungen zu Homosexualität
;
Media studies
;
Medienwissenschaften
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
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Indian sub-continent
;
Indischer Subkontinent
;
Südasien
;
Kultur
;
Queer-Theorie
Abstract:
This book develops a queer methodology to analyse a queer archive for the impact of normativity on subjecthood and the ways in which it shapes and curtails gender and sexuality. Chapters demonstrate how normativity functions to mask its own operation, is internalised by subjects, and is continually reproduced through discourse and in material ways. In seeking to make visible the functioning of normativity, the book performs a task of queering normativity by querying that which appears as natural in South Asian public culture. The book engages with both the consolidation and the unsettling of normativity through artefacts of South Asian public culture including canonical figures such as Rabindranath Tagore, literary and cinematic texts, Bollywood films, advertisements, social media posts, and ubiquitous ephemera in South Asia and beyond. Through these texts, the author unpacks the construct of canon, the nation, woman as a post-colonial subject, the home and the child, marriage, same-sex sexuality and identity. This book will be of interest to scholars and students studying and researching Queer Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, South Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Film Studies, and Media Studies
Description / Table of Contents:
1 'The Normal' Is Everywhere.2 How to Read Tagore 'Wrong': The Secret Life of Normativity.3 Between the Two Mother Indias: Normativity and the Home.4 'Caste No Bar': Normativity and Gay Marriage.5 Between Signs: Bollywood, Normativity, and Same-Sex Sexualities.6 Conclusions: Towards Queering Normativity.
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