Malaysian Tamils and transnational Tamil cinema : diasporic identities, 'Crisis Heterotopia' and 'Aura' / Gopalan Ravindran

Increasingly, the processes of globalisation and transnationalisation are proving to be crucial for the negotiations of transnational Tamil cinema and its diasporic audiences in more ways than one. In recent times, transnational Tamil cinema has expanded its territory beyond the shores of tradition...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ravindran, Gopalan
Format: Article
Language:en
Published: UPENA 2008
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11621/1/AJ_GOPALAN%20RAVINDRAN%20JSM%2008%201.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11621/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1833058635801952256
author Ravindran, Gopalan
author_facet Ravindran, Gopalan
author_sort Ravindran, Gopalan
building Tun Abdul Razak Library
collection Institutional Repository
content_provider Universiti Teknologi Mara
content_source UiTM Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
description Increasingly, the processes of globalisation and transnationalisation are proving to be crucial for the negotiations of transnational Tamil cinema and its diasporic audiences in more ways than one. In recent times, transnational Tamil cinema has expanded its territory beyond the shores of traditional diasporic markets in Singapore, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. It now caters to new and expanding markets such as South Africa, Japan, North America and Western Europe, besides its traditional diasporic markets. In a similar fashion, more than ever before, the identities of diasporic Tamils are being greatly impacted by the transnational Tamil cinema and its counterparts in other media. The processes of globalisation and transnationalisation have also caused the emergence of new sites of diasporic identity negotiations. These new sites are as much heterotopic and auratic as crisis ridden and non-auratic. This paper employs the notions of Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin to examine the negotiations of identities by Malaysian Tamils in the sites constructed by transnational Tamil cinema.
format Article
id my.uitm.ir-11621
institution Universiti Teknologi Mara
language en
publishDate 2008
publisher UPENA
record_format eprints
spelling my.uitm.ir-116212016-06-20T08:05:18Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11621/ Malaysian Tamils and transnational Tamil cinema : diasporic identities, 'Crisis Heterotopia' and 'Aura' / Gopalan Ravindran jurnalskrinmalaysia Ravindran, Gopalan Tamil diaspora Indian Motion pictures, Tamil Increasingly, the processes of globalisation and transnationalisation are proving to be crucial for the negotiations of transnational Tamil cinema and its diasporic audiences in more ways than one. In recent times, transnational Tamil cinema has expanded its territory beyond the shores of traditional diasporic markets in Singapore, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. It now caters to new and expanding markets such as South Africa, Japan, North America and Western Europe, besides its traditional diasporic markets. In a similar fashion, more than ever before, the identities of diasporic Tamils are being greatly impacted by the transnational Tamil cinema and its counterparts in other media. The processes of globalisation and transnationalisation have also caused the emergence of new sites of diasporic identity negotiations. These new sites are as much heterotopic and auratic as crisis ridden and non-auratic. This paper employs the notions of Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin to examine the negotiations of identities by Malaysian Tamils in the sites constructed by transnational Tamil cinema. UPENA 2008 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11621/1/AJ_GOPALAN%20RAVINDRAN%20JSM%2008%201.pdf Malaysian Tamils and transnational Tamil cinema : diasporic identities, 'Crisis Heterotopia' and 'Aura' / Gopalan Ravindran. (2008) Jurnal Skrin Malaysia <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Jurnal_Skrin_Malaysia/>, 5. pp. 99-118. ISSN 1823-1020
spellingShingle Tamil diaspora
Indian
Motion pictures, Tamil
Ravindran, Gopalan
Malaysian Tamils and transnational Tamil cinema : diasporic identities, 'Crisis Heterotopia' and 'Aura' / Gopalan Ravindran
title Malaysian Tamils and transnational Tamil cinema : diasporic identities, 'Crisis Heterotopia' and 'Aura' / Gopalan Ravindran
title_full Malaysian Tamils and transnational Tamil cinema : diasporic identities, 'Crisis Heterotopia' and 'Aura' / Gopalan Ravindran
title_fullStr Malaysian Tamils and transnational Tamil cinema : diasporic identities, 'Crisis Heterotopia' and 'Aura' / Gopalan Ravindran
title_full_unstemmed Malaysian Tamils and transnational Tamil cinema : diasporic identities, 'Crisis Heterotopia' and 'Aura' / Gopalan Ravindran
title_short Malaysian Tamils and transnational Tamil cinema : diasporic identities, 'Crisis Heterotopia' and 'Aura' / Gopalan Ravindran
title_sort malaysian tamils and transnational tamil cinema : diasporic identities, 'crisis heterotopia' and 'aura' / gopalan ravindran
topic Tamil diaspora
Indian
Motion pictures, Tamil
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11621/1/AJ_GOPALAN%20RAVINDRAN%20JSM%2008%201.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/11621/
url_provider http://ir.uitm.edu.my/