Reborn From Hybrid Ashes: Troubled Identities and Nostalgic Views in The Far Pavilions
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1341
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i6.196
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i6.196
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Oliete Aldea, ElenaFecha
2005Resumen
During the 1980s, Thatcher.’s economic revolution brought about important ideological and cultural implications closely related to the issue of identity construction. The Raj Revival cinematic productions apparently reflected the Conservative government.’s return to the values of the past. Nonetheless, a deeper analysis of these productions also points to their ambiguous nature in their portrayal of gender, race and class tensions. My aim in this essay is to demonstrate how the 1984 TV series The Far Pavilions reflects this conflict of identities, especially through the analysis of the main character, a British subject raised by an Indian family who falls in love with a half-cast Indian princess. Durante los años 80, la revolución económica thatcheriana llevó implícitos cambios ideológicos y culturales estrechamente relacionados con el tema de la construcción de la identidad. Las producciones denominadas .“Raj Revival.” reflejaban aparentemente el retorno a los valores del pasado defen...
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Thatcher
Cine
Cinema
The Far Pavilions
Raj revival