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South Asian Pornographies: Vernacular Formations of the Permissible and the Obscene

South Asian Pornographies: Vernacular Formations of the Permissible and the Obscene

Mini, Darshana Sreedhar
Baishya, Anirban K.

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General SociologyIndian & South Asian HistoryIndian & South Asian Art

ISBN10: 1032417889
ISBN13: 9781032417882
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2025
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

South Asian Pornographies is the first consolidated volume that explores the relationships between pornography, obscenity, law and desire in South Asia. Focusing on case studies from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh while gesturing towards other countries in South Asia, the authors of this volume come from fields as varied as history, literature, media and communication, and the visual arts. The book proposes that as a geo-political location, South Asia has a unique relationship to pornography, given the multiplicity of cultural and legal-censorial regimes that define the obscene and the permissible. South Asian case studies can demonstrate how pornography in the region is often defined in oblique terms, finding reflection in various modes of popular (and sometimes underground) culture, bypassing legal and censorial constraints. Like questions of identity that can only be answered in the plural (identities rather than identity), this book demonstrates how a range of pornographies constitutes the force field of sexualized media in South Asia. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, History, Sociology, and Social and Cultural Anthropology. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Porn Studies.

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