Impersonation & Identity In India
Presentation explores and juxtaposes protocols of impersonation performed by employees of call centers in Gurgaon, India, with the impersonation strategies of Bunty and Babli.
By Pavani Yalamanchili, February 26, 2007, Film, Issues, Media, Academics, Events, News, Daily
[1] UCLA’s Center for India and South Asia sponsors tomorrow’s lecture-cum-visual presentation by Purnima Mankekar, an associate professor in Asian American Studies and Women’s Studies. Extracted from a larger project on the role of transnational mass media in the production of South Asian public cultures, [2] “Unsettling India: Impersonation, Mobility, Identity” juxtaposes impersonation in different contexts—by employees of call centers in [3] Gurgaon, India, and by [4] Bunty and Babli, the leads in a Bollywood blockbuster—to explore how it might provide a lens to understand contemporary Indian identity and cultural production.
Manekar is the author of [5] Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India, an ethnography of TV viewing focused on the responses of upwardly mobile, middle-class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials (including Ramayan, Mahabharat and Hum Log).
More: [6] Purnima Mankekar
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[1] UCLA’s Center for India and South Asia: http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/
[2] “Unsettling India: Impersonation, Mobility, Identity”: http://international.ucla.edu/asia/showevent.asp?eventid=5585
[3] Gurgaon, India,: http://gurgaon.nic.in/
[4] Bunty and Babli,: http://bab.tw3nty-six.org/
[5] Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India: http://www.amazon.com/Screening-Culture-Viewing-Politics-Postclolonial/dp/082232
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[6] Purnima Mankekar: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june1/mankekar-060105.html
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