Girlhood in postcolonial India: redefining identities and contexts

后殖民印度的少女时代：重新定义身份和背景

• 批准号: 2887211
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2887211
• 关键词: Girlhood; postcolonial; India; redefining; identities; Girlhood; postcolonial; India; redefining; identities

Within India, boyhood proliferates narratives of childhood and girls are relegated to marginal,unobtrusive roles. Until recently, girlhood has been defined negatively, possessing frivolousconnotations, against womanhood, and the Hindu Brahmin urban cis-male experience ofchildhood is extrapolated as being the universal yardstick. It is this critical neglect that I wish toaddress in my doctoral work.My thesis will offer a nuanced portrayal of how Indian conceptualisations of identities ofgirlhood were infused with contemporary, historically contingent notions of sexuality, religion,caste and class. Shifting focus from Ashwini Tambe's legal study Defining Girlhood in India: ATransnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws (2019) and physical issues surrounding thedemarcation from childhood to adulthood, but not omitting them, I would explore concepts offeminist historiography and its engagement with empathy, intersubjectivity, cultural memory,solidarity, and bodily memory (Hirsh and Smith, 2002) within the context of girlhood studies.However, being aware of the limitations of extending "women's issues" onto the lives of girls(Mitchell, 2006), I will cater to the nuanced demands of girlhood. Resisting literary-historicalnarratives that reduce the girl-child in the psycho-social memory as 'an idiom of loss' (Krishnan,2010) as she is meant to 'belong' to her marital home adhering to the patrilineal, patrilocalfamily structure of India, I will focus on the newfound agency of the girl-child in lieu ofeducational reforms, technological advancements, public engagements, and the development ofan affective community in online spaces. Although much has been said about the powerdynamics between the child reader and the author, and the text as a contentious site ofmeaning-making by Jacqueline Rose, Jack Zipes and Peter Hunt among others, I believe it wouldbe worthwhile to reevaluate these theories within the locus of South Asian perspectives.

在印度内部，童年时期扩散了童年的叙事，而女孩则被降级为边缘，毫不怀疑的角色。直到最近，少女时代一直被负面定义，具有针对女人味的琐碎共享，而印度教婆罗门城市的cis-male经验则被推断为是普遍的码数。我希望在我的博士学位上进行蟾蜍的批评。 Shifting focus from Ashwini Tambe's legal study Defining Girlhood in India: ATransnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws (2019) and physical issues surrounding thedemarcation from childhood to adulthood, but not omitting them, I would explore concepts offeminist historiography and its engagement with empathy, intersubjectivity, cultural memory,solidarity, and bodily memory (Hirsh and Smith, 2002) within the context of少女研究。但是，知道将“妇女问题”扩展到女童生活的局限性（Mitchell，2006年），我将满足少女时代的细微需求。抵制在心理社会记忆中减少女童作为“损失的成语”（Krishnan，2010年），因为她打算“属于”她的婚姻住所，这些家乡的婚姻住所，我将重点介绍她的婚姻住所在线空间中的情感社区。尽管关于儿童读者和作者之间的权力动力学，以及杰奎琳·罗斯（Jacqueline Rose），杰克·齐佩斯（Jack Zipes）和彼得·亨特（Peter Hunt）等文本是一个有争议的遗址，但我相信，在南亚观点的基因范围内重新评估这些理论是值得的。