Gendered Representations in Eastern Cultural Production: Construct of the Indigenous Woman Gauri in Lagaan and the Impacts of Nationalism and Cultural Globalization on South Asian Womanhood

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gendered Representations in Eastern Cultural Production: Construct of the Indigenous Woman Gauri in Lagaan and the Impacts of Nationalism and Cultural Globalization on South Asian Womanhood

Original language description

The feminine subjectivity in Bollywood films is constructed by film-makers and by demand of audience fantasies as miraculous mixture of contradictions. Is it traditional or transnational? Female constructs as Gauri (the film protagonist) expose traditional dichotomies deeply embedded in Indian culture. Women aspire to be powerless victimized women, and powerful goddesses at the same time. Naturally, when nationalist discourse shapes the images then the feminist critique cannot but protest, that such iconography degrades women by presenting them in simplistic oppositions. Yet, feminist Basu observes that local women of power speak from positions of moral superiority conditioned by their chastity, and they represent no challenge to patriarchal values (Basu 1988). The image of Gauri in Lagaan seems to be the product of similar schizophrenia, and gendered constructs of Indian vision (as Gauri) tend to be perceived as schematic creations of anticolonial nationalism.

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2011

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

American and British Studies Annual

ISSN

1803-6058

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Volume of the periodical

2011

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Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

158-170

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