Colonial civilizing mission, Indigenous resistance, and witch-hunting in Anvita Dutt’s Bulbbul (2020)

IF 1.6 Q2 ETHNIC STUDIES
Navin Sharma, P. Tripathi
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Shashank Sinha, in his research on the practice of witch-hunting in the Adivasi (Indigenous or tribal) community of Chhotanagpur, Bengal, India, infers that witch-hunting as a practice was infused with gender and anti-colonial tensions. Relying on his data and findings about the unexpected surge of witch-hunting among the Indigenous people of Chhotanagpur, this research conducts a discourse analysis of the film text of Anvita Dutt’s film Bulbbul (Nightingale) (2020). Bulbbul explores the clash between the conventional gender roles assigned to Indian women and evolving socio-cultural standards around the equality of rights for women in the late 19th century. The film is a feminist stance on the politics of labelling rebellious women as witches and removing them through motivated witch-hunting. Through a close reading of Bulbbul, this article concludes that witch-hunting is a conscious Indigenous resistance and cultural politics in response to colonial civilizing missions in India by the British.
Anvita Dutt的Bulbbul的殖民文明使命、土著抵抗和猎巫(2020)
Shashank Sinha在研究印度孟加拉恰塔纳格布尔阿迪瓦西(土著或部落)社区的猎巫实践时推断,猎巫作为一种实践融入了性别和反殖民的紧张关系。本研究基于他关于乔塔纳格布尔土著人中猎巫人数意外激增的数据和发现,对安维塔·杜特的电影《夜莺》(2020)的电影文本进行了话语分析。Bulbbul探讨了19世纪末赋予印度妇女的传统性别角色与围绕妇女权利平等不断发展的社会文化标准之间的冲突。这部电影是一种女权主义的政治立场,将叛逆女性贴上女巫的标签,并通过有动机的猎巫行动将她们赶走。通过仔细阅读布尔布尔,本文得出结论,猎巫是一种有意识的土著抵抗和文化政治,以回应英国人在印度的殖民文明使命。
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