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The Ellipsis of Touch: Gandhi's Unequals
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 449–469.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Aishwary Kumar There is a peculiar absence of the untouchable in Hind Swaraj . The absence is particularly striking, given that the annihilation of untouchability, if not of caste, would subsequently become indispensable for Gandhi's preoccupations with equality. More than two decades after Hind...
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Consumption for the Common Good? Commodity Biography Film in an Age of Postconsumerism
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (3 (65)): 573–602.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Jennifer Wenzel This article reads three recent documentary films as commodity biographies in which the story of a commodity’s production functions less as defetishizing knowledge than as a new object of consumerist desire; such narratives tend to leave untouched the relations of inequality...
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Militarized Ecologies: Visualizations of Environmental Struggle in the Brazilian Amazon
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 233–255.
Published: 01 May 2014
... form of figuring reality reduces ecological complexities, interactions, fluidity, and biodiversity into two general forms or ideas of “environment”: the idea of an untouched and pristine wilderness and the idea of an environmental struggle waged by indigenous peoples comprehended as victims...
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Dalit in Black America: Race, Caste, and the Making of Dalit-Black Archives
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 21–41.
Published: 01 January 2023
..., untouchability and colonialism were two prisms through which the Black public sphere reorganized its internationalism, often drawing on race-caste analogies to describe the complicated patterns of post-slavery society and to imaginatively formulate potential communities across diverse geographies. The foremost...
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Can There Be a Subaltern Middle Class? Notes on African American and Dalit History
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 321–342.
Published: 01 May 2009
... into modernity and a regime
of human rights and equal opportunity. It then analyzes the particular political
and psychological challenges that come with the emergence of an ex-slave or ex-
untouchable middle class, such as the “black bourgeoisie” in the United States or
the dalit (ex-untouchable...
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Trooping the Colors on TV
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 155–158.
Published: 01 May 1991
... beginning, television has devotedly depicted
two of the flag’s multiple aspects. One is a species of the untouchable
numinous flag, the Durkheimian totem of the social compact. Though the
public culture 155 VoL 3, No. 2: Spring 1991
156...
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Visual Interlude: The Constitution Series (2021) by Vikrant Bhise
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 43–48.
Published: 01 January 2023
... the fundamental principles on which a citizen's rights are founded. The text constitutes an equal citizenry, thus serving as a repudiation of the historical forms of oppression and discrimination, among them the practice of untouchability and the debasement of labor. Vikrant Bhise, whose work revolves around...
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Books Received
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 201–203.
Published: 01 January 2014
.... Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste . New York: Fordham University Press. Gura, Philip F. 2013. Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hertzman, Marc A. 2013. Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil...
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The Case of the Missing Mahatma: Gandhi and the Hindi Cinema
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 349–376.
Published: 01 May 2011
.... Subramaniam
and written by “Kalki” on the theme of untouchability, with an image of Gandhi
seeming to give his blessing, and another on untouchability, A. V. Meiyappan’s
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Naam iruvar (1947), where in a song-and-dance scene the film...
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Artworks
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Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 451–456.
Published: 01 May 1998
... at a
lower speed, a lesser level of technological development than those high on a
cyber-buzz or those for whom the principal enemy of art is the museum. That
these bodies are traversed differently by a global system of flows, however, in no
way means that they are untouched. Indeed, the actual forms...
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Excerpts from “Lore Segal, Red Lantern, and Exoticism”
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (2): 329–332.
Published: 01 May 1993
..., the utter untouchable authority of an all pow-
erful male domination. Zhang has come a long way from the days of Red Sorghum,
when he seemed to enjoy letting his male star (“the hero”) carry off his female
star (“the beauty”) head down and feet up like a trophy, or even from the days
of Ju Dou...
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A Consumer and a Gentleman
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 129–134.
Published: 01 May 1990
... on water.
If today's 'Man at His Best' is a passionate 1980s striver after success
and good living, he was not untouched by the previous decade's emphasis
on personal growth and experience. Corporate struggle and personal devel-
opment form the two interweaving strands of the gentlemanly...
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Enjoy Your Rights! Three Cases from the Postcolonial Commonwealth
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Public Culture (1997) 9 (3): 377–393.
Published: 01 September 1997
...”at the expense of iden-
tity: the differences between, in India, for example, Hindu and Muslim, Muslim
and Sikh, princes and democrats, ”untouchables” and high-caste Hindus (and
between those of high caste: Rajput, Jat); or, in Canada, between First...
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No Sweat
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 193–199.
Published: 01 January 1997
...-power
is the sole foundation of [each firm’s] ability to compete.”8 That foundation needs
to be challenged.
Vijay Prashad teaches international studies at Trinity College in Connecticut and is
a member of the Forum of Indian Leftists (FOIL). His recent publications include
“Untouchable Freedom...
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Desert Islands: Ransom of Humanity
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 395–421.
Published: 01 May 2008
... come to be known as
“untouchability If someone becomes guilty of a crime against religion or the
state, the assembled populace casts him out of its midst, in declaring him sacer.
From this moment on, if there is any supernatural risk...
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Why Look at Cabin Porn?
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 557–578.
Published: 01 September 2015
... a hospitable haven in the darkness of night and a refuge in the wild—but not the delivery mechanism. This has consequences for how we think of the nature of cabin porn. The nature on display is pristine, untouched, and undisturbed—except for this single, isolated cabin, built for the enjoyment of nature...
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Soweto Now
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 499–506.
Published: 01 September 2004
... is considered
untouchable. In fact, there are no quick buyers of such cars within the
township.
AM: The end of apartheid seems to have facilitated the emergence of new
sites of erotic performance. What are the most...
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Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy (1982)
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 431–439.
Published: 01 May 2020
... “totally untouched by any knowledge of writing or print” [Ong 1982: 11]), effects massive changes in the way those cultures preserve information. Oral cultures store knowledge in the form of mnemonic formulas such as clichés and proverbial sayings, Homeric epithet and other forms of agonistic name-calling...
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Books Received
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Public Culture (1999) 11 (2): 407–415.
Published: 01 May 1999
...: Life of an
Untouchable. New York: Verso.
Wang, Jing, ed. 1998. China’s Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology. Durham,
N.C.: Duke University Press.
Washabaugh, William, ed. 1998. The Passion of Music and Dance: Body, Gender,
and Sexuality. New York: Berg.
Watson, James. 1998. Media...
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A Note on the Demand of Criticism
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Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 41–50.
Published: 01 January 1995
..., a tradition is not taken in the sense of what was prior to
modernity or what is untouched by reason or what endures without conflict; these
are the tediously familiar Enlightenment or “Burkean” uses that continue to animate
moral-political discourse. It is understood in the far more provocatively produc...
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