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  • Representing and resisting rape: re-appropriation of the female body in Usha Ganguly’s Hum Mukhtara

    • Authors: Soumya Mohan Ghosh; Rajni Singh (2017)

  • Women, from time immemorial, are always considered subservient to men, and they have remained at the disposal of the head of the family, the father. They are denied their basic human rights and the ‘biological control over their bodies’ as woman is the sexual property of her family and at the same time her body is negotiated for sustaining family honour. The female body is subjected to regulation and control in order to achieve the intended docility, a process through which power is dissociated from the body. The guardianship of women’s bodies make men proud possessor of property rights as well as self-acclaimed protector from their enemies.
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  • Revisioning Madame Beaumont’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in Emma Donoghue’s ‘the tale of the rose’ and the 2017 Disney Version: A Queer Reading

    • Authors: Priyanka Banerjee; Rajni Singh (2020)

  • Madame Beaumont’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ has become one of the most popular fairy tales to be appropriated in both text and screen over the years. This paper analyses how Donoghue’s reinterpretation of this classic tale in ‘The Tale of the Rose’ counters heteropatriarchal discourses about masculinity and femininity through a lesbian subject position. This paper attempts a queer reading of the 2017 Disney live action musical Beauty and the Beast and demonstrates how it challenges the heteronormative ideals of Madame Beaumont’s tale. The paper further interrogates how these later appropriations engage in activism by encouraging a dialogue about gender diversity in the mainstream. This w...
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  • Silence as political strategy in art: a Study of Susan Sontag’s Alice in bed

    • Authors: Prity Barnwal; Rajni Singh (2021)

  • The paper explores the politics of silence as a language of resistance through the prism of feminist discourse in Susan Sontag’s Alice in Bed (1993). Silence marks an essential presence in Sontag’s writings ranging from her essays to her creative oeuvres. Sontag’s initial approach to silence has been that of a modernist aesthete where she understood silence as an aesthetic prospect in art. However, her unwavering belief in the ‘aesthetics of silence’, that came out as a theme of whatever she has written after her 1967 essay of the same name, led Sontag to explore first the moral response (as seen in her essays like Bergman’s Persona and Fascinating Fascism) and ultimately the politica...
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  • Water and its kinship with communities in Subhash Vyam’s Water

    • Authors: Sohini Bera; Rajni Singh (2021)

  • Subhash Vyam’s Water revolves around the life-sustaining natural resource, water, and its kinship with the Gond communities that live simple yet sustainable lives in close proximity to nature. Water adumbrates the social and environmental aftermaths of dam building and documents modern development’s impacts on the lives of Gond villagers, on the ecosystem they inhabit, and on their intimate relationship with nature and its vital resources such as water. This article attempts to demonstrate how Water employs traditional Gond artistic forms to portray two contrasting worldviews regarding the consumption of natural resources – the first being a developmentalist world view and the second ...