Beyond Bollywood
Exhibiting South Asian America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bakirathi Mani, B Venkat Mani (0000-0003-2173-5658, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 193-217 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2015.0013 |
| OpenAlex | W934235487 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
This essay examines Beyond Bollywood , a landmark exhibition about South Asian Americans at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Focusing on the curatorial premise of the exhibition, the aesthetic objects it incorporates, and viewers’ affective relations to these objects, I argue that Beyond Bollywood generates a rich repertoire of feelings that reframe the relationship between visuality and representation in Asian American exhibition cultures. From exuberance and pride at the upwardly mobile immigrant narrative mapped by archival objects, to shame and anxiety generated through photographic artworks, Beyond Bollywood provokes us to consider the limits of visibility as a form of representational politics
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive reframing · Exhibition · Literature · Narrative · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Political science · Politics · Pride · Representation (politics · Shame · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Psychology · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · South Asian Cinema and Culture
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2019 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |