ABSTRACT

This research will attempt to understand the politics of the representation of Christian women characters in Hindi films, Julie, and Bobby from a postcolonial feminist lens. This paper studies the portrayal of Christian women characters as ‘westernized’ and ‘common’ in Hindi films. To prove this argument, a postcolonial feminist approach with the theories of Partha Chatterjee’s idea of the role of nationalism in the representation of the ‘westernized’ and ‘common’ women; Gopal Guru’s argument of the exclusion of the minorities from the mainstream imagination of the nation, and Diana Dimitrova’s discourse of ‘Otherism’ will be used. This research implies that the minority Christian women characters as the lead heroines in Hindi films are typecasted into the roles of immoral, sexually alluring, and unchaste woman who through her association with the Hindu hero poses a threat to the purity of Hindu dharma and hence the majoritarian idea of ‘Indianness’.

摘要

这项研究将试图了解在印地语电影朱莉和鲍比中表现基督教女性角色的政治从后殖民女权主义的角度来看。本文研究了在印地语电影中对基督教女性角色的“西化”和“普遍”刻画。为了证明这一论点，后殖民女权主义方法与 Partha Chatterjee 的民族主义在代表“西化”和“普通”女性中的作用的理论相结合；将使用 Gopal Guru 将少数民族排除在国家主流想象之外的论点，以及 Diana Dimitrova 的“他者主义”话语。这项研究表明，在印地语电影中作为主要女主角的少数基督教女性角色被塑造成不道德的、性感的、不贞洁的女性角色，她通过与印度教英雄的联系对印度教佛法的纯洁性构成威胁，因此“印第安人”的多数主义思想。