Beyond the Heteronorm (eBook, ePUB)

Interrogating Critical Alterities in Global Art and Literature
Redaktion: Paul, Subhadeep; Majhi, Goutam

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Beyond the Heteronorm: Interrogating Critical Alterities in Global Art and Literature explores exclusionary practices inspired by the construct of gender and how these conventions often misconstrue and convolute sex, gender, and sexual orientation. The contributors to this collection examine literary and visual representations of critical alterities from around the globe to produce empathic and inclusive analyses of experiences shared between diverse subordinated and minoritized socio-cultural entities and collectives. Organized into three parts, the chapters critique the concepts of personhood, performativity, and the post-binary. This edited collection deconstructs gender essentialism and embraces gender inclusivity in both theory and practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666910940
• Artikelnr.: 74831377

Autorenporträt

Dr. Subhadeep Paul is assistant professor of English in the School of Literature, Language and Cultural Studies at Bankura University. Goutam Majhi is assistant professor of English at Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, in affiliation with the University of Calcutta.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Formless Shape: An Analysis of Ana Mendieta's Silueta Body
Artwork from an "Eerie" perspective
Chapter 2: Sanitising the Erotic: Women's Body in the Ritual Performance of
Jagoi Raas
Chapter 3: Objectification of the Female Breast: A re-reading of Mahasweta
Devi's Breast Giver and Yogesh Pagare's Mulakaram
Chapter 4: Critiquing the Socio-cultural Gender Dynamics of Select Bengali
Ghost Fiction
Chapter 5: Zami: Embracing the Body
Chapter 6: "Straight But Not Narrow": An Ally Confronts Homophobia through
Litost
Chapter 7: Cultural Currencies and Pathways to Queer Acceptance in Rwanda
Chapter 8: Being Single: The Plight of Spinsters and Divorcees in Urban
Kolkata
Chapter 9: Bodies and Identity: The Dynamics of female identity in third
generation Nigerian writing
Chapter 10: Motherhood-An Inseparable Fragment of Feminist Discourse in
Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
Chapter 11: Problematizing the Gaze: Cindy Sherman's Depiction of
Femininity in The Complete Untitled Film Stills
Chapter 12: Virulent Mistresses: Bionomical-Opposition in Select
Renaissance Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi and Judith Leyster
Chapter 13: Unveiling the Veil: A Study of the Political Role of Muslim
Women in Medieval India
Chapter 14: The Shade: A Trans* Experience of Creative Resistance
Chapter 15: Teary-Eyed Tough Guys: Why Manshaming and Feminist Sons Don't
Go Together?