Thinking activity of Cultural Studies and Post~colonialism

Sharmeen obaid Chinoy 's Got Oscar award for her documentary " A Girl in the River " has been much celebrated at home. It is about honor killing in Pakistan.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Academy Award for her documentary, "A Girl In The River":- The Price of Forgiveness is a 2015 documentary film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy about honor killings in Pakistan.The documentary follows the story of a 19year old girl, who survives a honor killing attempt by her father and uncle. The protagonist has a solid stance on not forgiving her attackers,however, the public pressures her into forgiving. By doing that, the attackers are freed and can return home.This short film is about truly heroic Pakistani women, who have suffered appalling cruelty and oppression but who have refused to be silenced. In telling their stories to the world, they have fought back and exposed injustice.

      

Sharmeen’s films are about truly heroic Pakistani women — women who have suffered appalling cruelty and oppression but who have refused to be silenced. In telling their stories to the world, they have fought back and exposed injustice. It is shows the true situation of women that how they suffering so by showing this reality it brings awareness in society. It is not the situation of women in Pakistan but overall in  the world. We don't know many places where women are suffering. people not easily accept this reality. 

 

Prime duty of any literary writer is to present real and true picture of his/her Nation. Writers have ‘Freedom of expression’ as well. Thus they are free to portray the real image of country. But so called protector of culture may not like that their Nation and culture are reveled in black light in front of world‘. Padmavat’ movie also banned in several states of India. Because it speaks about dark side of Indian culture. Therefore many people tried to restrict the film..

In the same way ‘A Girl in the River’ was not accepted by wide range of people because they consider themselves as guard of culture. They cannot allow the story speaking harsh reality of Nation.

Why the white people have only right to give oscar award ? and why this award get so much high importance in all the awards ?    So this is the effect of post colonial culture. The Oscar award is organise by White men.  If the writer get Oscar awards he / she get more respect , famous in world.

Deconstruction

 What do you understand by 'Deconstruction'?
ans :-  Deconstruction is a term which is connected with demolition of a particular text or a particular thing and than looking at it with a new way by making margins center and center margin.

for further reading :- https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2015/03/deconstruction-and-derrida.html

Read an ad or TV serial or Film or literary text as post-structuralist critic. Be brief, precise and to the point.

Ans :-  we recently had controversy in surf exel advertisement. the controversy started with the thought of deconstruction of the advertisement. the religious believers had a problem of a girl of Hindu Religious and the boy from Muslim religion. than other problem was of Love Jihad in that advertisement.

for reference of the advertisement click here 

River and Tides

" A girl in the river : The price for forgiveness , is a documentary film about honor killings in pakistan . This short film is about truly heroic pakistani women , who have suffered from cruelty and oppression .In telling their stories to the world they fought back and exposed injustice .
" The white Tiger "  by Arvind Adiga , novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of india ' s class struggle in a globalized world. This novel examines issue of religion , caste , loyalty, corruption and poverty in India.
Writers like Arvind Adiga  he wrote the  novel about the darker side of India and his novel supplies a darkly humorous perspective of India’s class struggle in a globalised world. It is told through a retrospective narration from a village boy. We have many examples like Slumdog Millionaire. but, we can also say that writers has freedom of expression, they can write whatever they wants to. Sharmeen, she raise her voice against the male dominance. I am agree with the point and we have to accept the reality and change our self with appropriate situation. 
Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said's critique of Western representations of the Eastern culture in his 1978 book, Orientalism, is a seminal text for postcolonial studies and has spawned a host of theories on the subject. However, as the currency of the term "postcolonial" gained wider use, its meaning was expanded. Some consider the United States itself a postcolonial country because of its former status as a territory of Great Britain, but it is generally studied for its colonizing rather than its colonized attributes. In another vein, Canada and Australia, though former colonies of Britain, are often placed in a separate category because of their status as "settler" countries and because of their continuing membership in the British Commonwealth of Nations. Some of the major voices and works of postcolonial literature are Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children (1981), Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart (1958), Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient (1992), Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Jamaica Kincaid's ASmallPlace (1988), Isabelle Allende's TheHouseof theSpirits (1982), J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbariansand Disgrace (1990), Derek Walcott's Omeros (1990), and Eavan Boland's Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990.

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