Représentations filmiques de lesbiennes/queers issues de la diaspora indienne en Occident
Thesis or Dissertation
2013-05 (degree granted: 2014-03-03)
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Master'sDiscipline
SociologieKeywords
Abstract(s)
Devant l’explosion des représentations filmiques des pratiques et identités sexuelles non normatives qui caractérise actuellement la sphère cinématographique, la présente étude, dotée d’outils théoriques et méthodologiques issus de la sociologie du cinéma, des cultural studies et de l’approche féministe intersectionnelle, investit analytiquement trois longs métrages de fiction de narration conventionnelle dont des lesbiennes/ queers d’origine indienne en Occident, aux positionnements partiellement minoritaires sur les axes de division sociale que sont le sexe, la race et l’ethnicité, et la sexualité, occupent le devant et le derrière de la caméra : Chutney Popcorn (Nisha Ganatra, 1999), Nina’s Heavenly Delights (Pratibha Parmar, 2007), et I Can’t Think Straight (Shamim Sarif, 2008). Bref, l’objectif principal de ce mémoire est d’exposer les conceptualisations des expériences et subjectivités queers privilégiées par ce régime particulier de représentations, puis d’évaluer dans quelles mesures et de quelles manières il reproduit et déstabilise celles de discours académiques, activistes et nationaux postcoloniaux qui circulent internationalement. Witnessing the recent explosion of filmic representations of non-normative practices and identities which currently characterizes the cinematographic sphere, the following study mobilizes theoretical and methodological tools from sociology of cinema, cultural studies and the intersectional feminist approach to analytically explore three long-feature fictions of conventional narrative form that show, as well as are imagined and realized by lesbian/queers of Indian origins in an occidental context who occupy minority positions on the axes of social division that are the categories of sex, ethnicity, race, and sexualities: Chutney Popcorn (Nisha Ganatra, 1999), Nina’s Heavenly Delights (Pratibha Parmar, 2007), and I Can’t Think Straight (Shamim Sarif, 2008). In short, the main objective of this thesis is to expose the conceptions of queer experiences and subjectivities privileged by this regime of representation, and to evaluate how and in which ways it reproduces and destabilizes those of academics, activists and postcolonial nations which internationally circulate.
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