Several attempts to understand the existence of Casteism and its manifold manifestations in Indian modernity has been made so far. Caste could be thought of as a historical as well as anthropological reality, which undergoes various transformations over time. This way of thinking can imagine the advent of modernity and its spread as a process of gradual annihilation of caste with the democratic ideals of liberty and equality slowly seeping in. It may also suggest other simultaneous factors such as the impact of colonialism or capitalism, reconfiguring and perpetuating caste hierarchies instead of their dispersion. The latter process may continue Casteism without acknowledging it in the egalitarian society that apparently believes in the democratic principles. Caste is pushed back into the unconscious of the privileged through its non-acknowledgement and unmention. The historical process of such negation could lead us towards another way of thinking caste. From diachronic analysis we may hence move towards a more structuralist analysis of caste which gets activated through a concatenation of synchronic factors working together, something that is close to what Ambedkar calls “social order”.1 He brings in the question of ideology in his own way, something the Marxists in the latter half of 20th century would be compelled to grapple with. Arguing the economic determinism of the Socialists of his time in 1936, he comments (much before Althusser formulated his ideas of ‘overdetermination’ (Althusser “Contradiction and Overdetermination” 87-127) and ‘ideological state apparatuses’ (Althusser “Ideology” 232-272) or the English edition of Marx’s The German Ideology (was in circulation and discussion):
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{"title":"Actants in the“Object Donor List”: New Materialities of Martyr Ephemera Archives in the Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh","authors":"Kusumita Datta","doi":"10.35684/jlci.2021.8104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35684/jlci.2021.8104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183557,"journal":{"name":"Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116719255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metaphor, Creative Representation, and the Self: A Semiotic Analysis of Selected Arabic Short-stories by Female Writers","authors":"B. Al-Muttairi, J. Khatri","doi":"10.35684/jlci.2022.9104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35684/jlci.2022.9104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183557,"journal":{"name":"Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124700978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
95 Bodies in Transition: Exploring Queer Sexualities in Indian Cinema Hiya Chatterjee Representations of alternative sexualities in Indian popular culture are conspicuous through their absence and invisibility. This lack, especially in Bollywood, corroborates the critique that despite the increased visibility of the LGBTQ movement in post-liberalisation India, the transgender1 subcultures of Indian society still inhabit the periphery of the social consciousness. Most films centring on queer themes portray middle class characters and are reticent on queer sexuality, quite understandably so, in order to avoid censorship of a rigid and unimaginative Central Board of Film Certification of India. This is because popular culture in Indian society functions mostly as an ideological state apparatus intent on upholding the normative structures. Representation of sexuality in mainstream Indian cinema is circumscribed to the heteronormative, more specifically to cater to the (perverted) sexual fantasies of the cisgender, heterosexual male. The female body is not only a source of visual pleasure for the voyeuristic Indian male audience, but this act of deriving pleasure from the sexual otherisation of the female is considered essential to establish the self as ‘masculine’. This masculinisation of viewership has other consequences as well: it perfectly serves the patriarchal agenda of the heteronormative family in which the woman has to be tamed by the man to maintain the societal power relations and the sexual hierarchy.
{"title":"Bodies in Transition: Exploring Queer Sexualities in Indian Cinema","authors":"Hiya Chatterjee","doi":"10.35684/jlci.2021.7205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35684/jlci.2021.7205","url":null,"abstract":"95 Bodies in Transition: Exploring Queer Sexualities in Indian Cinema Hiya Chatterjee Representations of alternative sexualities in Indian popular culture are conspicuous through their absence and invisibility. This lack, especially in Bollywood, corroborates the critique that despite the increased visibility of the LGBTQ movement in post-liberalisation India, the transgender1 subcultures of Indian society still inhabit the periphery of the social consciousness. Most films centring on queer themes portray middle class characters and are reticent on queer sexuality, quite understandably so, in order to avoid censorship of a rigid and unimaginative Central Board of Film Certification of India. This is because popular culture in Indian society functions mostly as an ideological state apparatus intent on upholding the normative structures. Representation of sexuality in mainstream Indian cinema is circumscribed to the heteronormative, more specifically to cater to the (perverted) sexual fantasies of the cisgender, heterosexual male. The female body is not only a source of visual pleasure for the voyeuristic Indian male audience, but this act of deriving pleasure from the sexual otherisation of the female is considered essential to establish the self as ‘masculine’. This masculinisation of viewership has other consequences as well: it perfectly serves the patriarchal agenda of the heteronormative family in which the woman has to be tamed by the man to maintain the societal power relations and the sexual hierarchy.","PeriodicalId":183557,"journal":{"name":"Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114465840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dance Movement Therapy and Kathakin India","authors":"A. Vishwakarma","doi":"10.35684/jlci.2022.8206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35684/jlci.2022.8206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183557,"journal":{"name":"Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116903180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gender has been an important tool of research and inquiry conflating folk studies and women’s studies. Construction of identity is inextricably linked to the process of gendered construction of self—a social and cultural process, which facilitates and sustains the hegemonic patriarchal structures and discursive practices. As Maggie Humm contends “patriarchal power is ubiquitous. There is deeply entrenched politics of sexuality, beginning with the reproduction of patriarchy, through psycho-social conditioning in the family, which operates in all economic and cultural structures” (Humm 11). Within the gendered categorisations of the female self, the maternal body becomes the locus of ritualised abstractions and construction of values that enable the “becoming” of the woman, in Beauvoir’s1 terms, shaping certain dominant assumptions around the mother as a fertile, nurturing, self-sacrificing body.
{"title":"Performing the ‘Maternal’Body: Unearthing Desire and Sexuality in the Folksongs of the New Mother","authors":"O. Hooda","doi":"10.35684/jlci.2021.7201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35684/jlci.2021.7201","url":null,"abstract":"Gender has been an important tool of research and inquiry conflating folk studies and women’s studies. Construction of identity is inextricably linked to the process of gendered construction of self—a social and cultural process, which facilitates and sustains the hegemonic patriarchal structures and discursive practices. As Maggie Humm contends “patriarchal power is ubiquitous. There is deeply entrenched politics of sexuality, beginning with the reproduction of patriarchy, through psycho-social conditioning in the family, which operates in all economic and cultural structures” (Humm 11). Within the gendered categorisations of the female self, the maternal body becomes the locus of ritualised abstractions and construction of values that enable the “becoming” of the woman, in Beauvoir’s1 terms, shaping certain dominant assumptions around the mother as a fertile, nurturing, self-sacrificing body.","PeriodicalId":183557,"journal":{"name":"Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123896490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bedlam is the Only Cure: Inverting Panoptic Biopower and the Failure of a Psychotic Revolution in Poe's “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether”","authors":"K. Tembo","doi":"10.35684/jlci.2022.8201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35684/jlci.2022.8201","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183557,"journal":{"name":"Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129343382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sex and the Aesthetics of the Vulgar: Reading the Creative Paradox in the Works of Robert Crumb","authors":"P. Chakraborty","doi":"10.35684/jlci.2021.7206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35684/jlci.2021.7206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":183557,"journal":{"name":"Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130175891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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