Tracing a fifty-year history of Telugu cinema, as a industry and cultural form, this book shows how film is directly implicated in the rise to prominence of an elite which continues to dominate parts of the country to this day and, the emergence of a new idiom of mass politics. “The ‘Architectonics’ of Corporeal and Textual Selves: From Durga via Charulata and Banalata Sen to the ‘Virtual’ Indian Woman”. Keywords: woman, self, literature, painting, film, Bakhtin, Indian culture" CITATION: Ceciu, Ramona L. I emphasize these concepts with regard to the dialogue between artists and authors, and between the work of art and its readers. I attempt an inter-textual reading of the literary/visual corporeal and textual selves, by drawing mainly on Bakhtin's concepts of "architectonics" and "answerability". It discusses the manner in which the woman was variously represented in line with the cultural architectonics that assigned her particular identities––from the woman as goddess/mother, located in the private space to the woman as modern entity located within the public (urban) domain, as well as the outcast woman and the virtual woman. This FREE and AD-FREE app is the only complete collection of Bharadhiyaar Kavidhaigal (பாரதியார் கவிதைகள்) app available in Google Play.
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