Srimati Mukherjee

Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema

A Freedom Incomplete

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining the work of three directors from West Bengal, this book addresses the juxtaposition of tradition and culture regarding women in Bengali cinema. It argues the antithesis of women's roles, particularly in terms of ideas of resistance, revolution, change, and autonomy, by suggesting they convey resistance to hegemonic structures, encouraging a re-envisioning of women's positions within the familial-social matrix. This book will be a useful contribution for students and scholars of South Asian Culture, Film Studies and Gender Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781138120952
• ISBN-10: 1138120952
• Artikelnr.: 43752066

Autorenporträt

Srimati Mukherjee is Professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Representations of Disjuncture: Antithetical Responses
to Resistance in Public and Private Spheres 1. Feminism in a Kolkata
Context: Assault, Appeasement, and Assertion in Dahan 2. The Impossibility
of Incestuous Love: Woman's Captivity and National Liberation in Utsab 3.
Impermanence in Dekha: The Fragility of the Present and the Passing of a
"Traditional" Perspective Part II: Narratives of Waste and Rupturing the
Prohibitive 4. Woman as Alienated Commodity and Surplus Goods in Bariwali
5. Chokher Bali: A Historico-Cultural Translation of Tagore Part III: From
Transactional Commodities to Subjects in Meaningful Exchange 6. Mondo Meyer
Upakhyan: A Reading of Rebellion within Broken Social Systems