Afro-Asian Intimacies and the Politics and Aesthetics of Cross-Racial Struggle in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala
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| ID | 12469090 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Vanita Reddy (autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2015 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 233-263 |
| Data de publicação | 2015-10-01 |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Editora | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2015.0021 |
| OpenAlex | W2239426798 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 5 |
| Referências citadas | 6 |
In this article, I deploy the analytic of intimacy in order to critically reexamine South Asian American filmmaker Mira Nair’s groundbreaking film Mississippi Masala (1991). I define intimacy as the colonial management of sex, on the one hand, and as the inaccessible and unseen excesses of such forms of management, such as alliances, affections, and feelings of close familiarity among differently racialized subjects, on the other. I show that the structure and form of Nair’s film give expression to a set of intimacies between men that point to the political limits of heteronormative kinship—defined through state and culturally sanctioned practices of Asian endogamy and bourgeois domesticity—as the basis of Afro-Asian political alliance
Bourgeoisie · Endogamy · Ethnic group · Feeling · Genealogy · Kinship · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology · South Asian Cinema and Culture
| Citações por ano | 0,5 |
|---|---|
| Intervalo de citações | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Altamente citado | Não |