Beyond the Heteronorm
Interrogating Critical Alterities in Global Art and Literature
Published on 2. April 2024
Book
Hardback
242 pages
978-1-6669-1093-3 (ISBN)
Description
Beyond the Heteronorm: Interrogating Critical Alterities in Global Art and Literature explores exclusionary practices inspired by the construct of gender and how these conventions often misconstrue and convolute sex, gender, and sexual orientation. The contributors to this collection examine literary and visual representations of critical alterities from around the globe to produce empathic and inclusive analyses of experiences shared between diverse subordinated and minoritized socio-cultural entities and collectives. Organized into three parts, the chapters critique the concepts of personhood, performativity, and the post-binary. This edited collection deconstructs gender essentialism and embraces gender inclusivity in both theory and practice.
Reviews / Votes
Beyond the Heteronorm contributes significantly to a range of emergent and established fields such as feminist literary studies, queer studies, and transgender studies. Interrogating the tenets of heteronormativity, this timely collection calls attention to the ways in which diverse creative works and cultural practices engage critical alterities. -- John C. Ryan, Associate Professor, Southern Cross University, Australia Despite a lot of activism and scholarship, the body-politics, ego-politics, and binary-politics of gendered knowledge production continue to take place in unquestionably celebratory ways. This thought-provoking volume invites us to explore varied pathways in which intersectional feminist culture and nature can be curated in unprejudiced forms, beyond heteronormative knowledge systems. -- Sayan Dey, Author of Green Academia (2022) and Performing Memories and Weaving Archives (2023) Beyond the Heteronorm is a representative volume bringing together different critiques of heteronormativity and heteropatriarchy from India, Africa, and the western world. An up-to-date read, highly recommended! -- Clemens Ruthner, Trinity College DublinMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 BW Illustrations, 3 Tables
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
552 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-1093-3 (9781666910933)
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Interrogating Critical Alterities in Global Art and Literature
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03/2024
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Beyond the Heteronorm
Interrogating Critical Alterities in Global Art and Literature
E-Book
03/2024
1st Edition
Lexington Books
€90.99
Available for download
Persons
Dr. Subhadeep Paul is assistant professor of English in the School of Literature, Language and Cultural Studies at Bankura University.
Goutam Majhi is assistant professor of English at Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, in affiliation with the University of Calcutta.
Goutam Majhi is assistant professor of English at Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, in affiliation with the University of Calcutta.
Content
Chapter 1: The Formless Shape: An Analysis of Ana Mendieta's Silueta Body Artwork from an "Eerie" perspective
Chapter 2: Sanitising the Erotic: Women's Body in the Ritual Performance of Jagoi Raas
Chapter 3: Objectification of the Female Breast: A re-reading of Mahasweta Devi's Breast Giver and Yogesh Pagare's Mulakaram
Chapter 4: Critiquing the Socio-cultural Gender Dynamics of Select Bengali Ghost Fiction
Chapter 5: Zami: Embracing the Body
Chapter 6: "Straight But Not Narrow": An Ally Confronts Homophobia through Litost
Chapter 7: Cultural Currencies and Pathways to Queer Acceptance in Rwanda
Chapter 8: Being Single: The Plight of Spinsters and Divorcees in Urban Kolkata
Chapter 9: Bodies and Identity: The Dynamics of female identity in third generation Nigerian writing
Chapter 10: Motherhood-An Inseparable Fragment of Feminist Discourse in Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
Chapter 11: Problematizing the Gaze: Cindy Sherman's Depiction of Femininity in The Complete Untitled Film Stills
Chapter 12: Virulent Mistresses: Bionomical-Opposition in Select Renaissance Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi and Judith Leyster
Chapter 13: Unveiling the Veil: A Study of the Political Role of Muslim Women in Medieval India
Chapter 14: The Shade: A Trans* Experience of Creative Resistance
Chapter 15: Teary-Eyed Tough Guys: Why Manshaming and Feminist Sons Don't Go Together?
Chapter 2: Sanitising the Erotic: Women's Body in the Ritual Performance of Jagoi Raas
Chapter 3: Objectification of the Female Breast: A re-reading of Mahasweta Devi's Breast Giver and Yogesh Pagare's Mulakaram
Chapter 4: Critiquing the Socio-cultural Gender Dynamics of Select Bengali Ghost Fiction
Chapter 5: Zami: Embracing the Body
Chapter 6: "Straight But Not Narrow": An Ally Confronts Homophobia through Litost
Chapter 7: Cultural Currencies and Pathways to Queer Acceptance in Rwanda
Chapter 8: Being Single: The Plight of Spinsters and Divorcees in Urban Kolkata
Chapter 9: Bodies and Identity: The Dynamics of female identity in third generation Nigerian writing
Chapter 10: Motherhood-An Inseparable Fragment of Feminist Discourse in Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter
Chapter 11: Problematizing the Gaze: Cindy Sherman's Depiction of Femininity in The Complete Untitled Film Stills
Chapter 12: Virulent Mistresses: Bionomical-Opposition in Select Renaissance Paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi and Judith Leyster
Chapter 13: Unveiling the Veil: A Study of the Political Role of Muslim Women in Medieval India
Chapter 14: The Shade: A Trans* Experience of Creative Resistance
Chapter 15: Teary-Eyed Tough Guys: Why Manshaming and Feminist Sons Don't Go Together?