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The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness - Oxon Routledge 2014 - 162p - Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series .

On Otherism and Othering: An Introduction /​ Diana Dimitrova

Part I: In "Other" Lands: Diaspora, Religion and Literature
1. The Religion of Coolitude /​ Rashi Rohatgi
2. Religion and "Otherness" in a New World: The Radhasoami Tradition in Transnational Space /​ Diana Dimitrova

Part II: Creating Otherness: Language, Religion and Literature
3. "Othering" Through Language: The Construction of Two Languages and Communal Identities in British India /​ Rahman Tariq
4. The Idea of a Nation: H.R. Bacchan's Palimpsestian The House of Wine /​ Anne Castaing
5. The Politics of "Otherness": The Hindi Plays of Urdu-Hindi Author Upendranath Ashk (1910-1996) /​ Diana Dimitrova

Part III: Representing the "Other": Otherness, Gender and Sexuality
6. Imagining the Powerful "Other": Representations of Razia Sultan /​ Urvi Mukhopadhyay
7. Queer Bollywood: Same-Sex Sexuality, Gender Transgression and "Otherness" in Indian Popular Cinema of the 1990s /​ Thomas Waugh
8. Towards an Inclusive, Fluid Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Commercial Indian Cinema(s) /​ Sunny Singh

ISBN: 9780415711524

Subjects--Personal Names:
Other (Philosophy) - South Asia - Religious Aspects
South Asia - Civilization

Dewey Class. No.: 302.5 / OTH