Alla ricerca del “vero uomo”: declinazioni della mascolinità di Narendra Modi

  • Alessandra Consolaro University of Turin

Abstract

This article deals with some issues regarding masculinity in contemporary India, focusing on popular culture, the clothing semiotics, and the media discourse on masculinity, referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader of the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Modi has manipulated many figures from the nationalist past in order to build an image of himself as “the real man,” reaffirming the mandate of masculinity in order to lead the nation into the new millennium.

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Author Biography

Alessandra Consolaro, University of Turin

Alessandra Consolaro is Associate Professor at the University of Turin, where she teaches Hindi Language and Literature, and South Asian Cultures. Her field of interest and research is marked by interdisciplinarity and is based on feminist and gender critique. She has published on South Asia history, history of the Hindi language, critical study and translation of contemporary Hindi literature.

She can be reached at: alessandra.consolaro@unito.it

Published
2021-09-06
Section
Articles