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  Topic: Representation and Power: A Study through Stuart Hall’s “Encoding/Decoding” (1973). Personal Information: - Name: -Manasi Joshi Batch: - M.A. Sem 3 (2024-2026) E-mail Address: -mansijoshi202@gmail.com Roll Number: - 15 Assignment Details: - Topic: Topic: Representation and Power: A Study through Stuart Hall’s “Encoding/Decoding” (1973). Paper & subject code: -22410: Paper 205A: Cultural Studies Submitted to: - Smt. Sujata Binoy Gardi, Department of English, MKBU, Bhavnagar This paper explores the relationship between media, ideology and meaning by drawing on Stuart Hall’s seminal essay “Encoding/Decoding” (1973). The study examines how media and cultural products carry ideological messages that are encoded by producers and decoded differently by audiences. It investigates the mechanisms of encoding and decoding, the ways dominant ideology is reproduced or resisted, and illustrates the conceptual framework with examples from film, advertising and television. The analysi...

  Paper 204: Judith Butler’s concept of gender performativity and Orlando : A Biography Personal Information: - Name: -Manasi Joshi Batch: - M.A. Sem 3 (2024-2026) E-mail Address: -mansijoshi202@gmail.com Roll Number: - 15 Assignment Details: - Topic: Judith Butler’s concept of gender performativity and Orlando: A Biography Paper & subject code: - Paper 204: Contemporary Western Theories and Film Studies Submitted to: - Smt. Sujata Binoy Gardi, Department of English, MKBU, Bhavnagar Abstract This explores the interplay between Judith Butler’s concept of gender performativity and Orlando: A Biography (1928) by Virginia Woolf, in order to understand how literature anticipated and resonates with contemporary debates about gender fluidity, trans identities, and media representation in the age of identity politics. Butler’s key argument in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) is that gender is not a fixed identity or essence, but rather something we perfor...

  Paper 203: The Politics of Silence: Friday’s Muteness as a Symbol of Colonial Erasure Personal Information: - Name: -Manasi Joshi Batch: - M.A. Sem 3 (2024-2026) E-mail Address: -mansijoshi202@gmail.com Roll Number: - 15 Assignment Details: - Topic: The Politics of Silence: Friday’s Muteness as a Symbol of Colonial Erasure Paper & subject code: - Paper 203: The Postcolonial Studies Submitted to: - Smt. Sujata Binoy Gardi, Department of English, MKBU, Bhavnagar Date of Submission : - 10 November 2025 Abstract This essay explores the character of Friday in relation to colonial power, representation, and silence. Drawing on post-colonial theory—especially Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s seminal essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?” and critical scholarship on J. M. Coetzee (via Critical Perspectives on J. M. Coetzee and J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event), it argues that Friday’s muteness functions as a powerful symbol of the voiceless colonial subje...