Postcolonial Media Studies

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Research Article| April 01 2018 Postcolonial Media Studies Madhavi Murty Madhavi Murty Madhavi Murty is an assistant professor in feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an affiliate of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies program there. Her research and teaching interests center on popular media, nationalism, globalization, feminism, postcolonial theory, cultural theory, and modalities of difference such as race, caste, and gender. Her current book project focuses on the intertwined projects of Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism in India and their narration in popular culture. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Feminist Media Histories (2018) 4 (2): 147–151. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.147 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Madhavi Murty; Postcolonial Media Studies. Feminist Media Histories 1 April 2018; 4 (2): 147–151. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.147 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFeminist Media Histories Search Keywords: deconstruction, interdisciplinarity, media, Stuart Hall, subaltern The work of Stuart Hall, cultural theorist and sociologist, has been central to my own intellectual development in postcolonial media studies, as it has been for others engaged with questions about culture and difference, political economy and popular culture, postcolonialism and Marxism. I first encountered Hall, a postcolonial subject himself, racialized in Great Britain, on the shelves of a bookcase in the least-visited section of the British Council Library (BCL) in Mumbai, India. The BCL, that vestige and sign of colonialism and an embodiment of postcoloniality, for a teenager for whom the British raj was a story in a history textbook, was a site to access “high culture.” Indeed, this is precisely how the BCL constituted and narrated itself. Sutured to that narrative, the BCL was where I could access and read Austen, the Brontë sisters, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Dickens, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, in short where I could access... You do not currently have access to this content.