Full Description
Popular culture has long been a site which articulates the complexities and diversities of the everyday life of the nation. People, society, nation all confront, negotiate, and internalize or exclude the variegated and nuanced forms of popular culture in their own ways from time to time. Popular culture thus represents people, redefines society, and, to be bold, reconditions humanity. Asia Annual 2008: Understanding Popular Culture attempts to reveal at least part, if not whole, of the processes of how significant variegated aspects of popular culture was and has become for parts of Asia and particularly for India politically, socially, economically, culturally, and emotionally.
Contents
List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: Understanding Popular Culture by Kausik Bandyopadhyay; 2. The Poets Swadeshi Movement Nationalism as Popular Culture: A Study of the Poetry of the Swadeshi Movement by Anuradha Roy; 3. Gurudutt ke Samajik Upanyason me Sanskritik Chitran by Jawahar Singh; 4. Commercializing Tradition: Women, Ayurveda and Healing in Colonial North India by Charu Gupta; 5. All India Radio: Politics and Culture by Nabanita Mitra; 6. Negotiating 24-Hour News: Satellite Telivision, Democritic politics and Globalization in Contemporary India by Nalin Mehta; 7. New Culture at the Periphery: The Story of Musical North-East by Rakhee Bhattacharya; 8. Nationalism and Entertainment: A Study of Colonial Bengali and Gujarati Theatres by Sunetra Mitra; 9. Changing Contexts, New Texts: Analysing the Transforming Texts of Post-1980 Bengali Cinema by Sharmishtha Gooptu; 10. Partition Memory and Refugee Experience: A Study of Literature and Cinema in Post-Colonial Bengal by Monika Mandal; 11. Retelling the Holocaust in Film and Literature by Priya Singh; 12. Representations of the Armeninan Genocide in Popular Culture by Susmita Bhattacarya; 13. The Construction of Martial Race Culture in British India and Its Legacies in Pot-Colonial South Asia by Kaushik Roy; 14. Women and Sports in Colonial Bengal: A Process of Emotional and Cultural Integration? by Suparna Ghosh (Bhattacharya); 15. Cricket Beats Soaps, Serials and Politics: Cricket and Television in Contemporary India by Boria Majumdar; 16. Science for Whom? Popular Perception of Science and the Politics of Science Movement in Bengal by Sabyasachi Chatterjee; 17. Constituent Assembly Election in Nepal: From Monarchy to a Republic A Political-Cultural Transition by Amiya K. Chaudhuri; Review Article: 19. Bollywood, Popular Culture and Cultural Diffusion by Sreemati Ganguli; Research Notes: 19. My Journey Through Myanmar: Culture, People and History by Swapna Bhattacharya (Chakraborti); 20. Media Reconstruction and the Popular Hindi Serial Culture in Contemporary Afghanistan by Arpita Basu Roy; 21. Encounters: Reflections on Culture and Identity in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan by Anita Sengupta; 22. Orbiting the Steppe by Suchandana Chatterjee; Book Reviews.
