Translating Desire - The Politics of Gender and Culture in India

Translating Desire - The Politics of Gender and Culture in India

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Author: Brinda Bose
Editor(s): Brinda Bose
Publisher: Katha
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 311
ISBN/UPC (if available): 818764933X

Description

This volume brings together explosive new academic writing on the politics of sexuality and the production of the cultural text in contemporary India.

Over the past two decades, gender studies in general – and sexuality studies in particular-have exploded across the world, and India has begun to feel its strong reverberations. Even while one agrees with Mary E John and Janaki Nair that there has long been, and still exists, a conspiracy of silence regarding sexuality in India, it may also be asserted that such a silence-or perhaps, silencing is indeed beginning to be challenged in both academic and popular discourses in contemporary India. John and Nair’s anthology is itself just such a timely intervention in this ever-more-visible aspect of gender Studies in/about/from India.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

MYTHS, ARCHETYPES, STEREOTYPES

The Search for Kathleen McNally and Other Chimerical Women:
Colonial and Post-Colonial Gender Representations of Eurasians
Fears and Fantasies: Controlling and Creating Desires; or; Why Women are Witches
Designing Desire: Gender in Mainstream Bombay Cinema

MASCULINITIES / FEMININITIES

Outline for an Exploration of Hindutva Masculinities

Claiming transgression:
The Bengali feminist Magazine Sananda and the discourse of Sexuality

THE FEMALE BODY

Two Figures of Desire: Discourses of the Body in Malayalam Literature
Food Transfigured: Writing the Body in Indian Women’s Fiction in English

SAME-SEX LOVE

Same-Sex Love in India: A Brief Overview
Too Hot to Handle: The Cultural Politics of Fire

RAPE AND VIOLENCE

Embodying the Self: Feminism, Sexual Violence and the Law
Rape and Translation in Bandit Queen

TRANSLATION

The Most Intimate Act The Politics of Gender, Culture and Translation
Bangalore: A Short Story

Biographical Notes

Index

Author Index