WGS370H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: List Of Civilisations In The Culture Series, Neocolonialism, Salga Nyc
17 Dec 2014
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Any behaviour acting outside of the norm of institutions unravels the state. In december 1998 hindu right wing nationalists stormed movie theatres in some major. Indian cities to protest the showing of fire. The claim was that the film"s depiction of lesbianism was an affront to hinduism and alien to indian culture . Fire both adheres to and challenges a developmental narrative of gay and lesbian identity which underlies dominant euro-american discourses on non-western sexualities. A right wing group of men trying to preserve a certain notion of what a state is and continue to exist. Throughout the film there are contradictions; one comes to a place of diasporic and see the new place with experience from the past. Film opens with radha fantasizing herself as a young girl sitting besides her parents in an open field. Her mother says to radha what you can"t see you can see, you just have to see without looking.
