‘My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist’: disability and asexuality in<i>My Name is Khan</i>

Fedtke, Jana

doi:10.1080/19472498.2014.936209

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“…The film 'My Name is Khan' is an Islamic genre Bollywood film produced in 2010 and directed by Karen Johar.This film is full of religious learning, this film tells of taboos and acts of racism that are stereotypes of the world community about Islam and a Muslim (Aulia: 2021). The main character is portrayed as a Muslim South Asian in the United States who turns into a heroic figure that transgresses national, racial, religious, cultural and sexual boundaries (Fedtke: 2014). The movie brought up the tragedy of the World Trade Centre bombing in 9/11 and argues that America has already been destroyed even long before somebody literary blew up the country.…”

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Cultural Conflict in “Alif Lam Mim” and “My Name is Khan” Movies

Sartika¹,

Hida²,

Putri³

et al. 2022

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This study aims to analyze the social conflict in a film. The objects of this research are "Alif Lam Mim" and "My Name Is Khan" movies. Data were collected by watching the movies, identifying cultural conflicts, and analyzing cultural conflicts in it This research is a qualitative descriptive study which is used to determine the cultural conflicts occurred in these two movies. In "Alif Lam Mim" movie, it shows that cultural conflicts occurred between Muslims and the government where Islam is considered weak, and is easy to be dropped by terrorist Islamic stereotypes for profit. Then, in "My Name Is Khan" movie, it shows that cultural conflict occurred between Rizwan (a Muslim) with American society, where all Muslims are considered as terrorists. The reason for choosing the research in these two movies is because these two movies raised the same topic, which is the negative stereotypes of society on Islam and have same title, which is using Islamic name of characters. Both of these movies have the view that Islam is a violent religion, treason and full of greed. The conclusion that can be drawn from this research is that intercultural understanding is needed to maintain peace between nations and countries.

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Cultural Conflict in “Alif Lam Mim” and “My Name is Khan” Movies

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Hida²,

Putri³

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“…Karan Johar's My Name is Khan (2010), influenced by Rain Man (1988), represents the story of Rizwan Khan (Shahrukh Khan), who suffers from Asperger's syndrome. Jana Fedtke (2014) argues that it does not merely aim to promote disability rights but break away from the taboos associated with disabled people's sexuality. Hence, Rizwan appears "normal" in his heteronormative interpretation of masculinity (p. 521).…”

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Disability and Mental Health: Reflections on the Contemporary Hindi Cinema

Yadav

2021

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“…This statement (that 'society might not notice') also ignores the extent to which asexuality has been medically pathologized as a disorder. A distinction between asexuality and hypoactive sexual disorder has only recently been acknowledged in the American Psychiatric Association 's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (2013), and the relationship between asexuality and disorder continues to be a matter of discussion (see Kim 2011;Bogaert 2012;Fedtke 2014). While not denying disorders such as hyposexuality, the need to prove that the absence of sexual attraction might not constitute a disorder is worth keeping in mind in response to the statement that it is only transgressions of legal prohibitions that might need social acceptance.…”

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“…Depictions of Asperger's or prodigious intelligence are often connected with asexuality, for example Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory, Sherlock Holmes (in various manifestations, BBC's Sherlock being the most recent), as well as Dexter Morgan from Dexter. As noted by Sinwell (2014), Fedtke (2014), Miller (2017 and Barr (2019), media texts and pop culture representations have often drawn correlations between asexuality and abnormality, pathology and 'inhumanity'. This association between asexuality and 'weirdness' is present in the characterisation of Cole.…”

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‘Strangely Like a Person’: Cole and the Queering of Asexuality in Dragon Age: Inquisition

Brown

Partridge

2021

Sexuality & Culture

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In this article we consider the representation of the character Cole in Bioware’s Dragon Age: Inquisition (Electronic Arts, San Mateo, 2014), focusing upon how his asexuality is treated by other characters and its significance within his narrative arc. As well as contributing to the discussion of the representation of sexualities and gender within games, we seek to add to the ‘representational archive of asexuality’ (Cerankowski and Milks, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Routledge, Abingdon, p 40, 2014), including games as media depicting and defining asexuality through fictional characterisation. We argue that it is particularly through humour that Cole is marked as being ambiguously set apart from the other characters in the game, and is infantilized as a ‘boy’ rather than a young man. Within a party of diverse genders, sexualities and indeed species, Cole’s absent interest in sex is treated as though it were something strange and in need of being overcome for Cole to become fully ‘human’. Beyond the scope of this game, this raises further questions for the representation of asexuality within media culture, and broader cultural discourses concerning whether asexuality is conceived of as being within the bounds of both masculinity and human normality.

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‘My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist’: disability and asexuality inMy Name is Khan

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Cultural Conflict in “Alif Lam Mim” and “My Name is Khan” Movies

Cultural Conflict in “Alif Lam Mim” and “My Name is Khan” Movies

Disability and Mental Health: Reflections on the Contemporary Hindi Cinema

‘Strangely Like a Person’: Cole and the Queering of Asexuality in Dragon Age: Inquisition

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