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Representations Of The Nation and ItsMargins: A Study of selected movies

from Contemporary ostcolonial Cinema

A!A"ai

#$%'($

)nder the guidance of:

&r! *a"endra +umar

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ostcolonial literature,Criticism ostcolonial literary criticism comprehends

the literatures -ritten .y the coloniser andthe colonised/ -herein the su."ect matter

includes portraits of the colonised peoplesand their lives as imperial su."ects!

ostcolonial literary study is in t-ocategories: 0i1 that of the postcolonial

nations

0ii1 that of the nations -hich continueforging a postcolonial national identity!

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&iscussing Nation in ostcolonial

Conte2t

ost colonial narratives,3ictions asReconstructions of Nation: Clues fromLocation of culture .y 4ha.ha and

Anderson.

The Nation in Narration: NationsMargins5 &iscussing 4ha.has -or6s!

0Clues from the essay DissemiNation)

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Constructing , Reconstructing

7Reality

Insights into postcolonial/ hy.ridi8ed lives of thepeople0clues from the -or6 of Ashish NandysIntimate enemy, Fanons -Black skin white

mask1! 92ample5 Sri devis Englishinglish,

!lum"og #illionare, $unoon, #onsoon%e""ing, Fin"ing Fanny.

ostcolonial narratives of the Nation &hak "e In"ia'(*), +ang "e Basanthi'(),

In"ian, ura /ur aschim'01*), ramanu2am.

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Nationalist discourses as cultures in

performance

erforming the Nation: contemporarycultural production as postcolonialperformance of the nation!

92amples: Amir +hans 7agaan: ACriti;ue of the movie as reconstruction,narration of the postcolonial national

narrative of ressistance! 3ther e4am5les 6 7an"hi , !iraichalai,

8ala5ani, In"ian '0119),

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The Nation and its margins: ostcolonialerspectives from Contemporary Cinema

&econstruction of -omanhood in postcolonial cinema: Cele.rating ,

Articulating Se2uality, Identity! 92: Ban"it :ueen, 2ahansi rani, Fire,

#ary kom '(0) #other In"ia.

#insara 8anna, #annan, a"aiya55a,magalir mattum, ;ueen, /55u, Dirty

5icture, /

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The Nation and its margins: ostcolonial erspectivesfrom Contemporary Cinema

Minority 1/ 4om.ay 0#??>1/Insha /llah Footall '(0), a"ocumentry, Firaa; '(=), 8o

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The Nation and its margins: ostcolonial erspectivesfrom Contemporary Cinema

Can the su.altern spea6@ : Articulation of

the voices, issues of the oppressed, &alitsocieties!

92: +adhal/ Su"ata/ aruthiveeran/

Indhra/ 6ovil patti veerala6shmi/Am.ed6ar/ .harathi 6annama/ An6ur/ oreoru *ramathile/Chitharaiyavar0=''$1/

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ostcolonial narratives as criti;ues on religious, economic colonialism

92 : aradesi 0='#1/*andhi0#?B=1/6amara"/ periyar/ #?$(5earth0hindi1/ The legend of 4hagatsingh/

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ocating the postmodern Narratives, %istoriography in postcolonial

conte2ts!

92: #i"night &hil"ren'(0()/ The post modern forms to

reconstruct postcolonial realities: Theclash .et-een the literary and thecultural criti;ues!

92: !lum"ogmillionare, 5a5anasam,haku enn 0=?1.