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“Post-Feministic Narratology of the Constitutional Dictum of Barbie Land” by Deb Proshad Halder congregates ideas on the issues of how a female’s search for self-identity establishes a society of disharmony, where matriarchy superimposes against patriarchy and how any dogma, like matriarchy, establishes a deformed reality of the universe through selfeulogizing and male castigating. Barbie, an American fantasy comedy film, galvanises the fight between feminine narratives and the post-feminine aspect of female identity in society. Barbie, the protagonist of the fantasy film, settles into a new realisation of identity creation through the intertwined presence of genders in a harmonious society. In his paper, Mr. Halder has used a narrative approach to find out the post-feministic feature against the backdrop of a feministic attitude toward the world through an analysis of speeches, events, and choreography of the film. Here, the postfeministic theory of gender polity has added the framework for the selection of the topic, post-feministic narratology, where the new look of binary disposition of the characters and their impending and essential presence in the societal terrain has led to establishing a post-feministic outlook of society. Again, the paper used ‘Iconic Analysis’ to interpret images and attires of the casts to dig out the visual clues that led to cross-checking the issues of legal providence of gender normativity in establishing a gender sensitive state.
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This page is a summary of: Post-Feministic Narratology of the Constitutional Dictum of Barbie Land, SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2025, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5608010.
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