Indie crowdfunded narratives of commercial surrogacy, or the contested bodies of neoliberalism: Onir’s “I Am Afia” and Arpita Kumar’s Sita

This chapter focuses on two Indie crowdfunded narratives of gestational commercial surrogacy, “I Am Afia”, the first story in the four-part anthology film I Am (2010) by Indian filmmaker Onir (also known as Anirban Dhar), and Sita (2012), written and directed by US-based filmmaker Arpita Kumar. The...

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Main Author: Mendes, Ana Cristina (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2018
Subjects:
India
Indian cinema
Cinema studies
Surrogacy
Biopolitics
Neoliberalism
Postcolonial studies
Cultural studies
Gender studies
Class relations
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/35395
Country:Portugal
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http://hdl.handle.net/10451/35395

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