From: "David McInerney" <borderlands-AT-optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: Kama Sutra?
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:05:19 +1030


I would recommend Jyoti Puri's book _Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial
India: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality_ (Routledge, 1999).  I read this
in manuscript but I presume the finished book was much the same; it contains
a chapter on Mehta's 'Fire' which forms a central part of Puri's analysis.
I too liked Mehta's film, in fact reading Puri's ms. was what encouraged me
to find a copy of video.

I too thought that Nair's 'Kama Sutra' was horrible when I saw it on
release, and I have never felt any desire to revisit it.  I wonder what
others on the list thought of that film?

DM

Dr. David McInerney
review editor
Borderlands e-journal
www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au


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From: <jroos-AT-mappi.helsinki.fi>
To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:14 PM
Subject: Kama Sutra?


> Dear list members!
>
> I tried to seach from acrhive, but I could not find latest discussion
about
> Kama Sutra, or do I just remembert wrong that there was a discussion about
> Kama Sutra lately on this list?
>
> I am giving a series of lectures about women filmmakers from different
> regions and the next topic is Indian Women Filmmakers. I am talking about
> Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta. Mira Nair has made a "feminist version" of Kama
> Sutra, but personally I did not like it so much. When I was searching the
> internet I found that original Kama Sutra is also about homosexuality. Do
> you have any references to that?
>
> Deepa Mehta`s Fire was very controversial in India, since it was dealing
> lesbian love in India. I really liked film personally. Unfortunately Deepa
> Mehta`s film Water has not been finished, since the topic is too difficult
> to deal in India. I found a lot of material about Deepa Mehta through
> Internet, but if you have articles dealing about her, please tell me.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Jonna Roos
> jonna.roos-AT-helsinki.fi
>
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