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Text As Cultural Antagonist: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
| Title: | Text As Cultural Antagonist: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana | | Author: | Valerie Peterson | | Publication: | Journal of Communication Inquiry / Sage Publications | | Enumeration: | Vol. 26, No. 2, 133-154 (2002) | | Abstract: | The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana took part in discourses about sex in the UnitedStates in the early 1960s. Initial reactions to it display its political charge and itspotential for offering alternatives to traditional sex-related ideologies. A discussionof historical context and close analysis of early commentary and reviewsshow, in detail, how the Kama Sutra cut against familiar racial, cultural, class,gender, and sexual biases. Chantal Mouffe's political philosophy of radical andplural democracy is used to make sense of these initial responses, laying out theimplications of the Kama Sutra as both political antagonist and political enemy.In the process, implications of this analysis for the Kama Sutra's role in U.S. sexdiscourses, in particular, and the political role that sex literature and otherantagonistic discourses play in democratic politics, in general, are discussed. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | See Also: | | Tools: |
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