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The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness book cover

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The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness

Edited By Diana Dimitrova Copyright 2014
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge
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This book introduces the term "otherism" and looks at the discourse of otherism and the issue of otherness in South Asian religion, literature and film. It examines cultural questions related to the human condition of being the "other," of the process of "othering" and of the representation of "otherness" and its religious, cultural and ideological implications. The book applies the... Read more
Introduction: On Otherism and Othering Diana Dimitrova 1. Part 1: In "Other" Lands: Diaspora, Religion, and Literature 1. The Religion of Coolitude Rashi Rohatgi 2. Religion and "Otherness" in a New World: The Radhasoami Tradition in Transnational Space Diana Dimitrova Part 2: Creating Otherness: Language, Religion, and Literature 3. "Othering" through Language: The Construction of Two Languages and Communal Identities in British India Rahman Tariq 4. The Idea of a Nation: H.R. Bacchan’s Palimpsestian House of Wine Anne Castaing 5. The Politics of "Otherness": The Hindi Plays of Urdu-Hindi Author Upendranath Ashk (1910-1996) Diana Dimitrova Part 3: Representing the "Other:" Otherness, Gender and Sexuality 6. Imagining the Powerful "Other:" Representations of Razia Sultan Urvi Mukhopadhyay 7. Queer Bollywood: Same-Sex Sexuality, Gender Transgression and "Otherness" in Indian Popular Cinema of the 1990s Thomas Waugh 8. Towards an Inclusive, Fluid Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Commercial Indian Cinema(s) Sunny Singh

Biography

Diana Dimitrova is Associate Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Religions at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre (2004) and Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama (2008) and is the editor of Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia (2010).

"The book brings out yet another way of examining the notion of exclusion, marginalisation, reconfiguration of identities and subjectivities by foregrounding the process of “othersim” as an analytical lens."

Maunaguru Sidharthan, National University of Singapore, Asian Journal of Social Science 43 (2015) 850–852

'...it challenges existing theoretical frameworks to study the ‘other’ to comprehend various representations of ‘otherness’ and ‘othering’ in the South Asian context, highlighting the importance of context-based theoretical frameworks. By focusing our attention on the various representations of the ‘other’, the volume certainly elicits further dialogue and productive debate.'

George Pati, Valparaiso University, Journal of Hindu Studies, Nov 2016, Vol 9, Issue 3

 

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