Rumya Sree Putcha, "The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India" (Duke UP, 2022)
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I Still Find Jasmine So Interesting and Puzzling
Jasmine is the only Disney princess that does not have a solo she only sings with Aladdin and though marriage is of course an important and constant theme throughout all of the Disney films for women it is not the primary plot in any other in any other of the films. The obsession with the fact that she has to get married is very specific to this film but I don't think is distinct from the subtexts or maybe not even subtext just the texts that that film was meant to convey about the fact that Indian or brown women you know orientalist or orientalized women have to are living in patriarchal societies, he says. There's still like I still have students who are
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