Seductive aesthetics of postcolonialism
By: Rekha Menon
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Hampton Press communication series. Critical bodies
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cresskill, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781572739727; 9781572739734
Description: "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."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.