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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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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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J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AI - Jazykověda

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2011

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

American and British Studies Annual

ISSN

1803-6058

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Svazek periodika

2011

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

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Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

158-170

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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