... (T)he landscape functions as a scribe recording the passage of history of the nation and its people. The emotion attached to the landscape relates to its ability to release memory, allowing the past to exist simultaneously with the present. Thus a metonymic link between bodies, landscape and nation, in that they are all contiguous... function to temporarily replace one another... The landsc...

Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats (1998), an appropriation of the myth of Medea, re-presents the predicament of Hester Swane, who like Medea, is an outsider, a dispossessed woman living on the margins of society, who, at the age of seven, was abandoned by her mother, and now is struggling to establish her identity by looking for connection with the lost m/other. Carr shifts the focus from stereo...

media can be a good representation of dominant ideologies in society. the analysis of such discourse can shed light on the mental and social structures of people in society. adopting van dijk’s (1995) layout of discourse ideology and his (2000) practical and general outline of ideological analysis, this study analyzes the iranian movie a separation, the winner of the 84th annual academy award f...

Abstract Ambitions for India to enact the role of vishwaguru or ‘world teacher’ are a conspicuous feature foreign policy discourse under contemporary Hindu nationalist rule in India. This discourse, and India's foreign-policy practice, engage international realm with puzzling intensity given nationalism's inward-looking exclusionary emphasis on majoritarian cultural unity. In this article, I le...

This study examined the media representations of Muslims during first wave Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in India. The conducted a thematic discourse analysis on TV debates aftermath an Islamic congregation Delhi whose attendees were tested positive with COVID-19 infection. found overall negative representation mainstream which corroborates previous studies, albeit, different contexts. Three ...

Adopting a discourse-historical approach (DHA), we analyse how male influencers and their followers co-construct gender–state entanglement through social-mediated discussions about mythologised historical figure, Zhuge Liang, on Bilibili. The analysis discovers that the figure is portrayed as wen–wu masculinity archetype, whose imaginary modified against current socio-cultural trends intertextu...