What Does It Mean to Be a Postcolonial Feminist? The Artwork of Mithu Sen

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ID12148296
AuthorsSushmita Chatterjee (0009-0001-1177-957X, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume31
Issue1
Pages22-40
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/hypa.12225
OpenAlexW2551528554
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

This article examines what the work of New Delhi‐based artist Mithu Sen brings to thinking about being a postcolonial feminist. Using images from Sen's solo exhibit in New Delhi and New York titled Half Full (2007), I theorize on the complexities that proliferate when thinking about postcolonial feminism. Sen's images play with “an” identity to showcase the hybrid and mobile configuration of postcolonial subjectivity. Sen's provocative aesthetic urges us to rethink defining a set of conditions or tenets for postcolonial feminism. Rather, her aesthetic politics propels through humor and provides a prism to constantly reimagine postcolonial feminist subjectivity by urging a consideration of maps that intersect and overlap

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Feminism · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations · Prism · Sociology · Subjectivity · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Theatre and Performance Studies

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