ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|47 pages
Theoretical Imaginings
part II|76 pages
Social Media
chapter 3|24 pages
Gathering Online, Loitering Offline
chapter 4|20 pages
From Bombay Dost to Global Host
part III|117 pages
Film
chapter 7|22 pages
Feminist Masculinism
chapter 12|16 pages
Ethical Encounters
part IV|33 pages
Literature