Colonialization in Bird’s Eyes
M. S. Keerthana1, Sonia Chellarian2
1M. S. Keerthana, Integrated MA Student, Department of English and Languages, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Kochi Campus, India.
2Sonia Chellarian, Assistant Professor Department of English and Languages, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Kochi Campus, India.
Manuscript received on 15 May 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 22 May 2019 | Manuscript Published on 08 June 2019 | PP: 153-154 | Volume-8 Issue-7C May 2019 | Retrieval Number: G10290587C19/19©BEIESP
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Abstract: In the contemporary global scenario, the aspects and attributes of post-colonial theory has encapsulated almost all the major echelons of our society ranging from popular media to international economics. The dialectics of the ‘oppressor’ and the ‘oppressed’ has become one the most important topic of deliberation since the nineteenth century so that, it has been both exemplified and trivialized in popular culture to great extends. This paper is an attempt to analyse the 2016 animation movie The Angry Birds from a postcolonial perspective. Although the movie is a comedy, primarily intended for the child audience, it has strong implicit undercurrents of colonization and independence wars. The clan of birds symbolizes the native people who are the ‘colonized’ and the green-coloured pigs represents the ‘colonizers’. This paper also examines the movie’s close parallelism with the history and course of British colonization in India.
Keywords: Post Colonialism, Imperialism, Culture, Independence, Indian Colonization.
Scope of the Article: Natural Language Processing