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What Does It Mean to Be a Postcolonial Feminist? The Artwork of Mithu Sen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Sushmita Chatterjee
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This article examines what the work of New Delhi‐based artist Mithu Sen brings to thinking about being a postcolonial feminist. Using images from Sen's solo exhibit in New Delhi and New York titled Half Full (2007), I theorize on the complexities that proliferate when thinking about postcolonial feminism. Sen's images play with “an” identity to showcase the hybrid and mobile configuration of postcolonial subjectivity. Sen's provocative aesthetic urges us to rethink defining a set of conditions or tenets for postcolonial feminism. Rather, her aesthetic politics propels through humor and provides a prism to constantly reimagine postcolonial feminist subjectivity by urging a consideration of maps that intersect and overlap.

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Hypatia , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , Winter 2016 , pp. 22 - 40
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Copyright © 2016 by Hypatia, Inc.

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