Tag: Humanities – Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication,

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Hybridity and Context in Sita Sings the Blues: Appropriate or Appropriative

Abandoned by her husband who was working in India, the cartoonist Nina Paley found Sita’s rejection by Rama to be a closer parallel to her experience than any Western myth. Her feature film, Sita Sings the Blues (2008), crafted over five years, is an animated musical featuring a hybrid Sita expressing herself through the voice