Transcultural Negotiations of Gender

Saugata Bhaduri is Professor at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has taught, conducted research, and published extensively in the areas of literary and cultural theory, popular culture of both the folk and technologized sort, translation and comparative literature, and gender and sexuality. He has been visiting professor at different institutions in Europe and the Americas, and has been a recipient of grants for collaborative research from major international bodies like Leverhulme Trust, UK Arts Council, UKIERI, Erasmus Mundus, DAAD, BMBF, etc. The collaborative research projects he is currently engaged in are “Performing Gender: Negotiating Space in Civil Society” (in partnership with the University of Würzburg, Germany), “Polycoloniality in India: Cultural Transactions with Europe from Early Modernity to the 19th Century” (in partnership with the University of Göttingen, Germany), and “Computer Gaming across Cultures” (in partnership with Bangor University, UK, and West Virginia University, USA).  Indrani Mukherjee is Professor at the Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is a second generation Hispanist who wrote the first ever PhD on Latin American Literature from any Spanish department in India. Her academic career spans across 30 years and her publications are in the areas of comparative literature, cultural studies and pedagogy of literature. She is working on two research projects on comparative gender studies from India and Latin America which are funded by the University Grants Commission, India, and the UPE, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She has been invited by many universities and academic forums in India and abroad to give lectures (including keynote, plenary or other), chair sessions of conferences or even speak as an Indian representative in India-Spain-Latin America World forums. She is a life member of the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies and of the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda (India), which is in academic collaboration with the International Lincoln Center at the Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA and University of North Texas at Denton, USA.

Part I: (BE)LONGING IN TIME.- Chapter 1: Curiosity Killed the... Woman: Modern Rewritings of “Bluebeard” in Literary Representations of Marital Abuse.- Chapter 2: New Feminine Myths as Builders of New Transcultural Horizons.- Chapter 3: Not by Faith Alone: Religion, Gender and the Public Domain in India.- Chapter 4: Subverting Brahminical Patriarchy through Myths and Folktales: Karnad’s Hidden Polemic.- Chapter 5: Religion and the Position of Women in Indian Society: De-masculinizing Mythologies and Religio-Sexual Rites.- Part II: (BE)LONGING IN SPACE.- Chapter 6: Through Other Eyes: Nineteenth-Century Irish Women in South America.- Chapter 7: “God knows five daughters is enough for anyone”: Gender Issues in India and Japan.- Chapter 8: Rewriting Genre/Gender: Crime Fiction by Women from India and Latin America.- Chapter 9: Gender Revolution in Socialist Cuba: Up to a Certain Point.- Chapter 10: Bodies of Pleasure: Rethinking Gender, Space and Identity.- Part III: PERFORMING (BE)LONGING.- Chapter 11: ‘Devadasi’ Reform in Colonial South India: The Case of Radhika Santwanam.-  Chapter 12: Gender and Performance: The Case of Re-invention of Mohiniyattam in Early Twentieth Century Kerala.- Chapter 13: Wayward Women, Wicked Singing.- Chapter 14: Gendered Bhavas: Perpetuating Notions of ‘Ideal’ Male and Female Behaviour through Specific Emotions Highlighted in Acting in Mayabazar.-  Chapter 15: The Relevance of Gender in the Narco Corrido/Narco Novel.- Part IV: MODERNITY, TECHNOLOGY AND (BE)LONGING.-

Chapter 16: Tagore’s Women Heralding the ‘New Indian Woman’: A Critique of the Women’s Question in the Nationalist Discourse.- Chapter 17: Manasi to Neera: the Evolution of the Concept of ‘Muse’ in Modern Bengali Poetry.- Chapter 18: “Gulabi Talkies”: Technology, Empowerment and Changing Spaces Women Occupy.- Chapter 19: ‘Because You’re Worth It’: The New Woman in Post Liberalisation Women’s Magazines in India.- Chapter 20: “Googling Baby”.