Full 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.
Contents
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?
