Freedom and destiny : gender, family and popular culture in India (Record no. 71511)
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| fixed length control field | 03795 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780198060833 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 306.850 |
| Item number | BE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Uberoi, Patricia |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Freedom and destiny : gender, family and popular culture in India |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Oxford University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2023 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xix,309p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents<br/>Acknowledgements vii<br/>Preface ix<br/>List of Illustrations xvii<br/>1 'BEAUTYFULL WIFE, DENGER LIFE': ENGAGING WITH POPULAR CULTURE 1<br/>I A Moving Message 1<br/>'Beaucyfull Wife, Denger Life' 1<br/>Il Reading Popular Culture 3<br/>The Concept of Popular Culture 3<br/>The Semiotics of Popular Culture 7<br/>Imagining the Nacion 10<br/>III Gender and Genre 12<br/>Visual Culture and the Controlling 'Gaze' 13<br/>Reading the Romance 16<br/>Gender and Resistance 17<br/>IV Rethinking the Family 20<br/>The Kinship Map of lndia 20<br/>The Indian Joint Family 22<br/>Arranged Marriage 24<br/>Dowry and Brideprice 26<br/>The Limits of Family Change 28<br/>The Moral Economy of the Indian Family 29<br/>V Dharma and Desire, Freedom, and Destiny 33<br/>2 FEMININE IDENTITY AND NATIONAL ETHOS IN CALENDAR ART 48<br/>I Woman/Goddess/Nation: A Contemporary Controversy 48<br/>II Defining Calendar Art 49<br/>III Ravi Varma and the Invention of Calendar Art 52<br/>IV Deciphering the Archive: Gender and Calendar Arr 58<br/>Objects of Desire/Commodities on Sale 60<br/>Icons of Nation 62<br/>Plurality and Difference 66<br/>V Trajectories of Change? 68<br/>3 'BABY' lCONS: FORMS AND FIGURES OF A NEW GENERATION 85<br/>I Introduction 85<br/>II Envisioning Childhood 87<br/>III South Asian Childhoods 90<br/>Child Socialization as Pathology 91<br/>Childhood between Tradition and Modernity 93<br/>Cosmologies of Childhood 95<br/>IV Representing the Child 97<br/>God-baby 98<br/>Welcome-baby 100<br/>Citizen-baby 102<br/>Hero-baby 103<br/>Customized-baby 104<br/>4 DESIRE AND DESTINY: RESCRIPTING THE MAN-WOMAN RELTIONSHIP IN POPULAR CINEMA 114<br/>I Prologue: On a Personal Note 114<br/>II The Body Language of Popular Cinema 117<br/>III The Problematics of Romance 119<br/>Dharma and Desire 121<br/>Freedom and Destiny 123<br/>IV A Paradigm of Desire 124<br/>Jabba and Bhoothnath 125<br/>Chhote Sarkar and the Courtesan 126<br/>Chhori Bahu and Chhote Sarkar 127<br/>Bhoothnath and Chhoti Bahu 129<br/>V Happy and Unhappy Endings 130<br/>5 IMAGINING THE FAMILY: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF VIEWING HUM AAPKE HAIN KOUN . . . ! 138<br/>1 What Makes a 'Clean' Movie? 143<br/>The Lack of 'Vulgarity' 143<br/>The Display of Affluence 148<br/>The Spirit of 'Sacrifice' 150<br/>The Family as 'Tradition' 152<br/>II The Constitution of the Ideal Indian Family 155<br/>The Ideal of the Joint Family 156<br/>Affinity as a Value 158<br/>The Truth-telling Voice 159<br/>III The Pleasures of Viewing: Voyeurism, Narcissism, and a Happy Ending 162<br/>IV The Emblematic Family 168<br/>6 THE DIASPORA COMES HOME: DISCIPLINING DESIRE IN DDLJ 180<br/>I Prologue 180<br/>II Indianness: At Home and Abroad 181<br/>III Dilwale Dulhania Le ]ayenge 185<br/>IV Romance, Indian Style 189<br/>V The Tyranny of 'Tradition' 196<br/>VI Pardes: Reinstituting the Contradiction of India and the West 200<br/>VII '.American Dreams, Indian Soul' 204<br/>VIII Indian Dream, Transnational Location 206<br/>7 LEARNING TO 'ADJUST' : THE DYNAMICS OF POST-MARITAL ROMANCE 217<br/>I Domesticating Romance Fiction 217<br/>II Woman's Era 220<br/>III Twenty Tales of True Romance 222<br/>Tales of Courtship 223<br/>Tales of Conjugal Love 224<br/>Sources of Marital Tension 226<br/>Mediation 227<br/>Resolution 231<br/>IV True-life Tales of Marital Breakdown 232<br/>V Prescription for a Happy Marriage 235<br/>VI Conclusion 238<br/>8 SCRIPTING ROMANCE? TRIBULATIONS OF COURTSHIP IN POPULAR FICTION 248<br/>I Introduction: Constructing the Problematic 248<br/>II Narrative Trajectories 252<br/>Making 'Love' Respectable 252<br/>Putting 'Love' into Arranged Marriage 256<br/>III Conclusion 261<br/>References 264<br/>Index 301 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | India |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | General |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 06/02/2024 | amazon.in | 667.00 | 1 | 306.850 BE | 025572 | 24/02/2024 | 18/02/2024 | 667.00 | 06/02/2024 | Book |