• Interrogating Impunity through Counterpublic: Rethinking Habermas’s Public Sphere in Paulaumi Duttagupta’s Onaatah of the Earth

    Author(s):
    SAKSHI SINGH ANURAG KUMAR
    Editor(s):
    Jyotirmaya Patnaik (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Communication Studies, Digital Humanists, Electronic Literature, Film Studies, Television Studies
    Subject(s):
    Motion pictures--Social aspects, Women's studies, Women--Sexual behavior, Public relations, Broadcast journalism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Patriarchy, impunity, counterpublic, public sphere, sexual violence, Film and society, Women's gender, and sexuality studies, Gender studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/5h8z-h584
    Abstract:
    The present paper aims at analyzing the inevitable relationship of patriarchal impunity with counterpublic in India with reference to Onaatah of the Earth (2017) by Paulami Duttagupta. It is apparent that much of the discourse on counterpublic emphasizes on either countering the existing state agencies as mentioned by Nancy Frazer where she critiques the exclusionary practices of bourgeois public sphere labeling the process as undemocratic or advocating locational counterpublic to uplift the subalterns to establish democracy discussed by Kanika Batra. However, not much has been discussed about the exclusion of discourses critiquing impunity which forms an essential background to establish a correlation between patriarchal impunity and the counterpublic. Thus, the paper attempts to examine bourgeois public sphere mainly as a patriarchal discursive arena disseminating and strengthening the idea of impunity granted, especially in cases of sexual violence within the framework of Habermas’s public sphere. The study also focuses on how the novel Onaatah of the Earth acts as a counterpublic to undermine or neutralize the impunity by addressing issues related to gender sensitivity bringing them forth not only in discursive space but in activism too.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.15655/mw/2018/v9i3/49488
    Publisher:
    Media Watch
    Pub. Date:
    2018-9-17
    Journal:
    Media Watch
    Volume:
    9
    Issue:
    3
    Page Range:
    278 - 290
    ISSN:
    2249-8818,0976-0911
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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