New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film, and Literature
Disrupting the Discourse
Edited by Sonora Jha and Alka Kurian
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Book Presentation:
This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive articulations that represent an unprecedented surge of feminist response to the culture of sexual violence in South Asia. Here scholars across disciplines and international borders chronicle the expressions of a disruptive feminist solidarity in contemporary South Asia. They offer critical investigations of these newly complicated discourses across narrative forms – hashtag activism on Facebook and Twitter, the writings of diasporic writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Bollywood films like Mardaani, feminist Dalit narratives in the fiction of Bama Faustina, social media activism against rape culture, journalistic and cinematic articulations on queer rights, state censorship of "India’s Daughter", and feminist film activism in Bangladesh, Kashmir, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
About the authors:
Sonora Jha is Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Seattle University. Alka Kurian is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington Bothell, USA.
See the publisher website: Routledge
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