Media, Diaspora and Gender Identity in Nationalistic Spaces:Negotiating Gender in Diasporic Cultural and Literary Spaces

This paper endeavors to study gender identity in the framework of the ideology of nationalism and its projections in media and literary texts. It analyses how masculinity and nationalism have always been parallel discourses in its exclusion or subordination of feminine roles in the constructions of the nation whether through its media projections or through literary texts.. The paper attempts to examine how these dominant discourses re-inscribe themselves in postcolonial ideologies of nationalism, especially India. It examines the effects of these discourses in creating stereotypes of feminine identities, which get further complicated in the context of migration and diasporic cultures.