SONS AND MOTHER-LAND: GENDERED PERFORMANCE OF NATIONALITY AND ITS CRITICISM IN INDIAN CINEMA-TEXTS.
As nation is construed as a category of identification, it needs to be continually performed and most of these performances remain gendered in nature, especially with the maternalisation of the nation and territory. Cinema, with its power to impact millions, becomes one of those powerful mediums thr...
| Published in: | World of the Orient no. 1; pp. 195 - 206 |
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A. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
2026
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