voiCe: ConsTruCTing language and CulTural idenTiTy in posTColonial narraTives

Journal of Arts, Meaning and Public Life

BEYOND THE SCREEN: THE SUBALTERN LIBRARY OF NARRATIVES IN TAMIL CINEMA

This study conceptualizes contemporary Tamil cinema as a subaltern library, arguing that films can preserve, organize, and circulate lived experiences, cultural memories, and resistance narratives that are weakly represented in official historical records. Although scholarship has examined Tamil cinema through caste, i...

Exploring Hybrid Identity in the Novel: A Bhabhaian Perspective

This study explores Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of cultural hybridity, with particular emphasis on the formation and transformation of hybrid identities in a postcolonial context. Drawing on Bhabha’s theoretical framework, the study examines how memory, cultural negotiation, and historical experience contribute to the rec...

Reclaiming Culture and Resisting Erasure in Coloured Women’s Identity Narratives in Post-Apartheid South Africa

This article explores how women who self-identify as Coloured in post-apartheid South Africa narrate and negotiate their cultural identities within the legacies of colonialism and apartheid. Drawing on cultural psychology with narrative identity theory and decolonial feminist psychology, the study examines how women re...

Voices from the Margins: Folklore, Decolonial Memory, and the Politics of Identity in Postcolonial Bangladesh

This article examines folklore as resistance and cultural memory and identity reclamation in the context of post‐colonial Bangladesh. One of the most valuable insights that came out was the idea of oral traditions, rituals, songs, and specifically women embroidering performance art not as heritage or 'traditional' / fo...

The Discursive Construction of Zanryu-hojin Identity: A Comparative Appraisal of Scholarly and Narrative English Discourses

Language constitutes rather than neutrally represents displaced subjectivity. This study examines how English constructs the identity of Zanryu-hojin, Japanese civilians abandoned in postwar Manchuria, through two data sources: Chan’s (2011) monograph, Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria, and five oral narratives c...