“Popular Print culture consumed by the Indian middle and upper classes participates in the wider cultural production of the international beauty queen as an emerging hero whose story of success circulates within a nation state that is actively renegotiating its marginal position in the global economic order.” – Global Queens, National Celebrities
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“Popular Print culture consumed by the Indian middle and upper classes participates in the wider cultural production of the international beauty queen.
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“Popular Print culture consumed by the Indian middle and upper classes participates in the wider cultural production of the international
beauty queen as an emerging hero whose story of success circulates within a nation state
that is actively renegotiating its marginal position in the global economic order.” – Global
Queens, National Celebrities
Reita Faria1966 Miss World
Parameswaran Argument
Representations of feminine agency in print culture authorize the ideological interests of India’s consuming classes.
• Aquire global “superpower”• Representation of postcolonial critiques of
gender and nation• Middle class readers – Ideologies of traditions and modernity
“Patriarchy, capitalism, and caste, and historical forces of colonialism and nationalism have left their indelible marks on representations of the feminine subject.”