Abstract
Basu Thakur’s talk, “Saving Our Souls: Teleopoiesis in the Age of Dying Planets,” noted how contemporary popular culture cloaks constructions of the noble savage in the rhetoric of feel-good multiculturalism. Focusing on James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar and Katherine Boo’s creative nonfiction “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” (2012), he argued that these Western liberal critiques of globalization must be unraveled for being complicit in the reproduction of the non-West as a negated Other and for their revivification of the Western subject as transcendentally privileged.
| Original language | American English |
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| State | Published - 4 Feb 2017 |
| Event | Colloquium on Constrcutions of the Noble Savage, Brown University - Providence, RI Duration: 4 Feb 2017 → … |
Conference
| Conference | Colloquium on Constrcutions of the Noble Savage, Brown University |
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| Period | 4/02/17 → … |
EGS Disciplines
- Other Film and Media Studies
- Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies