Cultures of Ageing and Ageism in India
Herausgeber: Bakshi, Kaustav; Chakravarti, Paromita
Cultures of Ageing and Ageism in India
Herausgeber: Bakshi, Kaustav; Chakravarti, Paromita
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This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society. It explores its representations and the anxieties, fears and vulnerabilities associated with ageing.
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This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society. It explores its representations and the anxieties, fears and vulnerabilities associated with ageing.
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Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 256
- Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 154mm x 234mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 414g
- ISBN-13: 9780367370718
- ISBN-10: 0367370719
- Artikelnr.: 69431940
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 256
- Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 154mm x 234mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 414g
- ISBN-13: 9780367370718
- ISBN-10: 0367370719
- Artikelnr.: 69431940
Paromita Chakravarti (D.Phil, Oxon.) is Professor of English, and has been the Director of the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She teaches Renaissance drama, women's writing, sexuality and film studies and introduced the first Masters course in Queer Studies in India (2005). She has led national and international projects on gender in textbooks, sex education, women's higher education, homeless women, HIV and women and single women. Her books include Women Contesting Culture (Stree, 2012) Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas (Routledge, 2018) and Asian Interventions in Global Shakespeare (Routledge, 2020). Her book Bengal and Italy: Transcultural Encounters from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Early 21st Century is forthcoming from Routledge. Kaustav Bakshi is Associate Professor, Department of English, Jadavpur University. A Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow, he has worked on Sri Lankan War Literature and sexualities for his doctoral programme. An LGBTIQ+ activist, he has published in several national and international journals, such as, South Asian Review (2012), Postcolonial Text (2015), New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (2013), South Asian History and Culture (2015, 2017, 2021, & 2022), South Asian Popular Culture (2018), and Cultural Trends (2023) on queer politics, literature and culture. His latest books include, Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender, Art (Routledge 2015), Queer Studies: Texts, Contexts, Praxis (Orient Blackswan, 2019) and Popular Cinema in Bengal: Star, Genre, Public Cultures (Routledge, 2021).
List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1 The Power of
Vulnerability: Age, Activism and the "Daadis" 2 From maintenance to
care-ing: the aged in times of changing familial geographies 3 Queering
chrononormativity in India: challenges and possibilities 4 Care, Intimacy
and Shifting Power: The Ageing Body within and without the "Family" 5
Precarious lives, caring networks and queer ageing 6 Physical Cultures and
the Ageing Body: The Long Careers of Manohar Aich and Biswanath Datta 7
Umar Ka Lihaz: Ageism in Indian Classical Dance 8 More than Memories: Aging
and the Attachment to Material Objects in Three Indian Short Stories 9
"Second Childishness and Mere Oblivion": Indian films on Dementia and the
Idea of Ageing Differently 10 His Master Voice: Amitabh Bachchan, Aural
Stardom and the Ageless Baritone 11 Actor as a Time-Traveller: Politics of
Performing Age Onstage 12 Ageing, Caring and Mortality 13 Loneliness,
Belatedness and Care: Arriving Late Where You No Longer Are. Index.
Vulnerability: Age, Activism and the "Daadis" 2 From maintenance to
care-ing: the aged in times of changing familial geographies 3 Queering
chrononormativity in India: challenges and possibilities 4 Care, Intimacy
and Shifting Power: The Ageing Body within and without the "Family" 5
Precarious lives, caring networks and queer ageing 6 Physical Cultures and
the Ageing Body: The Long Careers of Manohar Aich and Biswanath Datta 7
Umar Ka Lihaz: Ageism in Indian Classical Dance 8 More than Memories: Aging
and the Attachment to Material Objects in Three Indian Short Stories 9
"Second Childishness and Mere Oblivion": Indian films on Dementia and the
Idea of Ageing Differently 10 His Master Voice: Amitabh Bachchan, Aural
Stardom and the Ageless Baritone 11 Actor as a Time-Traveller: Politics of
Performing Age Onstage 12 Ageing, Caring and Mortality 13 Loneliness,
Belatedness and Care: Arriving Late Where You No Longer Are. Index.
List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1 The Power of
Vulnerability: Age, Activism and the "Daadis" 2 From maintenance to
care-ing: the aged in times of changing familial geographies 3 Queering
chrononormativity in India: challenges and possibilities 4 Care, Intimacy
and Shifting Power: The Ageing Body within and without the "Family" 5
Precarious lives, caring networks and queer ageing 6 Physical Cultures and
the Ageing Body: The Long Careers of Manohar Aich and Biswanath Datta 7
Umar Ka Lihaz: Ageism in Indian Classical Dance 8 More than Memories: Aging
and the Attachment to Material Objects in Three Indian Short Stories 9
"Second Childishness and Mere Oblivion": Indian films on Dementia and the
Idea of Ageing Differently 10 His Master Voice: Amitabh Bachchan, Aural
Stardom and the Ageless Baritone 11 Actor as a Time-Traveller: Politics of
Performing Age Onstage 12 Ageing, Caring and Mortality 13 Loneliness,
Belatedness and Care: Arriving Late Where You No Longer Are. Index.
Vulnerability: Age, Activism and the "Daadis" 2 From maintenance to
care-ing: the aged in times of changing familial geographies 3 Queering
chrononormativity in India: challenges and possibilities 4 Care, Intimacy
and Shifting Power: The Ageing Body within and without the "Family" 5
Precarious lives, caring networks and queer ageing 6 Physical Cultures and
the Ageing Body: The Long Careers of Manohar Aich and Biswanath Datta 7
Umar Ka Lihaz: Ageism in Indian Classical Dance 8 More than Memories: Aging
and the Attachment to Material Objects in Three Indian Short Stories 9
"Second Childishness and Mere Oblivion": Indian films on Dementia and the
Idea of Ageing Differently 10 His Master Voice: Amitabh Bachchan, Aural
Stardom and the Ageless Baritone 11 Actor as a Time-Traveller: Politics of
Performing Age Onstage 12 Ageing, Caring and Mortality 13 Loneliness,
Belatedness and Care: Arriving Late Where You No Longer Are. Index.