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Gender & Identity: The Promise and dilemma projected in “Khadgam’
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Muvva Srinivas
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Inspired primarily by Ranjit Guha and Antonio Gramsci’s theory on subaltern classes, this paper espouses a “history from below” pattern to the voice of south Indian film makers. Positioning the eclectic thinkers such as Edward Said, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, an analysis of the blockbuster Tollywood movie Krishna Vamsi’s ‘Khadgam’ (2002) focusing on the key debates related to ‘Gender & Identity’ has been targeted to articulate cinematic representations. The collective concepts embedded in the film to project Indian cultural history showcasing the controversies around which the paper is organized. The paper concludes with a continued profusion of watching diverge local films for a meaningful explorations.

  • Key words: subaltern classes; eclectic thinkers; Krishna Vamsi’s ‘Khadgam’; Indian cultural history.
  • References
    • Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Moving Places: A Life at the Movies. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995 1995
    • Roy, Parama. Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998 1998
    • Judith Butler Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 1989
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