التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Histories, memories and the male gaze: The Mumbai riots in Bombay. |
| المؤلفون: |
J. S., Smithi Mohan |
| المصدر: |
South Asian Popular Culture; Jul2019, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p159-169, 11p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
MALE gaze, BOMBAY Riots, Mumbai, India, 1992-1993, SCHISM, HISTORIOGRAPHY, BALANCE of power |
| Reviews & Products: |
BOMBAY (Film) |
| مستخلص: |
Manufacturing dissent in the name of history, its instrumentalisation for political purposes and bloodshed over its competing versions are the hallmarks of the Hindu Muslim schism prevalent in India. A recurring feature in Indian historiography is its rupture in the form of riots leading to human casualty. In this context, through an attempt to read the 1992 Mumbai riots as a quagmire of power politics, I would like to propose that a popular film like Mani Ratnam's Bombay stabilises the secularist notion of unity in diversity amidst voices of dissent. The top down memory of trauma and hatred which percolates from the records of 'official' history is neutralised to a certain extent by the bottom up memory induced by an 'imagined' account which loiters in the popular psyche of generations. The film thus becomes a striking example of a neutraliser of memory. But a more nuanced reading shows how the director has skilfully projected the principle of equivalence from among the multiplicity of gazes to the axis of male gaze in order to conceal the play of ideologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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