Seductive Aesthetics of Postcolonialism (Rekha Menon)
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This book adroitly refers and relates to aesthetic, gender, money, power, possession, politics, difference and justice as they are played out on the body of the Other. The body becomes a battleground, especially the body of the Other, Drawing attention to the misrepresentation and reinterpretation of the aesthetics of Indian art, the author poses the in-between seductive space, to bring back the forgotten cosmic essence. Examining aesthetic creations--sensuous, passionate, erotic, immoral, the author discusses how the neo/post colonial Indians have not changed since the Victorian moral codes and today (how to the Other), what was primitive and barbaric has become trendy and exotic. Contents: Introduction: Between the Legs the Space. RE-DRESS COSMOS. Disrobing and Redressing. Excess of Judgements. West Casting a Shadow of Morals. The Transgression of Limitation of the Cosmic Presence. Trendy Exoticism. Cosmic Eroticism Dressed in Moral Space. Who Are We? Inscriptive SEDUCTION. Transgressions: Redressing Tradition. Disruption of the Traditional Other. The Scars of the Past. VACILLATING MORALITY. Desirous Seduction. The Irony of Desirous Seduction in Bollywood Films. The Globalization of Indian Marriages. Death of Knowing. EMBRACING THE SATIATE SPACE. Afterword: Liberated or Trapped: Third World's Third World Dreamings. How Many Footsteps. Notes. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.