Mourner-confessors: The masala intercommunity of women in Rudaali and Hamlet

被引:1
作者
Pillai, Tripthi [1 ]
机构
[1] Coastal Carolina Univ, Dept English, Conway, SC 29528 USA
关键词
OPHELIAS; POLITICS; WOMAN;
D O I
10.1057/s41280-020-00178-5
中图分类号
G [文化、科学、教育、体育]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 04 ;
摘要
This essay adopts critical impurity ormasalaas theoretical methodology and ethical practice to offer an affective reading of the mourner-confessor women in Shakespeare'sHamletand Kalpana Lajmi'sRudaali, the film adaptation of Mahashweta Devi's story about mercenary women wailers designated to mourn the deaths of upper caste men of their rural community in northern India. While ritual mourning offers Shanichari, Bhikni, Ophelia, and Gertrude conventional opportunities to articulate their own or others' losses within contained environments, the women encroach on the spaces and practices of confession to re-signify grief as a critique of institutional structures that liminalize their affective experiences of injustice. By amalgamating mourning and confession, the women ofHamletandRudaalipublicly claim their positionality as marked and remarkable beings co-constituted also in their affective resistance of the state's purity politics that strives to sequester (by rendering inarticulable) their subjects' collective experiences of suffering and marginalization.
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