{"title":"Ethical Reckoning: Human Rights and National Cinema in Bangladesh","authors":"E. Chowdhury","doi":"10.1215/15366936-8913151","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article the author builds on the idea of Bangladeshi national cinema as human rights cinema to explore its role in documenting and engendering understanding about women, vulnerability, and agency within a Muktijuddho gender ideology. Drawing from feminist sociologist Patricia Hill Collins's conceptualization of a Black gender ideology, the author proposes that in cinematic traditions, an idealized Muktijuddho gender ideology influences and entrenches gendered social norms and reinforces perceptions of masculinity and femininity in war. These perceptions serve to justify patterns of legibility, recognition, and rejection for discursive practices of national inclusion and exclusion. Specifically, the author analyzes Nasiruddin Yousuff's Guerrilla (2011), an award-winning film featuring the story of Bilqis Banu, a middle-class, Muslim female combatant who takes on at once the national struggle for selfdetermination and the gender struggle against patriarchal cultural norms. The film opens up new ways of imagining the category birangona and elicits a deeper appreciation of differentiated agency, vulnerability, and humanity.","PeriodicalId":54178,"journal":{"name":"Meridians-Feminism Race Transnationalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Meridians-Feminism Race Transnationalism","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8913151","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"WOMENS STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In this article the author builds on the idea of Bangladeshi national cinema as human rights cinema to explore its role in documenting and engendering understanding about women, vulnerability, and agency within a Muktijuddho gender ideology. Drawing from feminist sociologist Patricia Hill Collins's conceptualization of a Black gender ideology, the author proposes that in cinematic traditions, an idealized Muktijuddho gender ideology influences and entrenches gendered social norms and reinforces perceptions of masculinity and femininity in war. These perceptions serve to justify patterns of legibility, recognition, and rejection for discursive practices of national inclusion and exclusion. Specifically, the author analyzes Nasiruddin Yousuff's Guerrilla (2011), an award-winning film featuring the story of Bilqis Banu, a middle-class, Muslim female combatant who takes on at once the national struggle for selfdetermination and the gender struggle against patriarchal cultural norms. The film opens up new ways of imagining the category birangona and elicits a deeper appreciation of differentiated agency, vulnerability, and humanity.
摘要:在这篇文章中,作者以孟加拉国国家电影作为人权电影的理念为基础,探讨其在Muktijudho性别意识形态中记录和促进对妇女、脆弱性和能动性的理解方面的作用。根据女权主义社会学家Patricia Hill Collins对黑人性别意识形态的概念,作者提出,在电影传统中,理想化的Muktijudho性别意识形态影响和巩固了性别化的社会规范,并强化了对战争中男性和女性的看法。这些观念有助于证明民族包容和排斥的话语实践的易读性、承认和拒绝模式是合理的。具体而言,作者分析了Nasiruddin Yousuff的《游击队》(2011),这是一部获奖电影,讲述了中产阶级穆斯林女战士Bilqis Banu的故事,她同时承担了民族自决斗争和反对父权文化规范的性别斗争。这部电影开辟了想象比兰戈纳类别的新方式,并引发了对差异化代理、脆弱性和人性的更深层次的理解。