Paper No.203 The Post Colonial Studies
Hello :) reader this blog is about digital narration and interesting womens word and other very interesting things but as an academic purpose i am given my observation.
What is a digital story?
A digital story is a multimedia presentation combining a variety of digital elements within a narrative structure (a story). Media may include text, images, video, audio, social media elements (e.g. Tweets) and interactive elements (e.g. digital maps).
“…digital storytelling combines the best of two worlds: the "new world" of digitised video, photography and art, and the "old world" of telling stories.”
Narrative has always been a tool for teaching and distributing knowledge in diverse disciplinary fields. Story telling has proved to be an effective way to teach and learn the English language. However in the present century, where technology has invaded our classrooms, traditional storytelling may have to be replaced or modified to sustain its effectiveness as a tool for teaching English. Digital storytelling (DST) is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. It is one of the many genres of digital narrative. My claim is that since story telling is a uniquely powerful linguistic technique in the English language classroom, digital storytelling may well be the answer to evolve this time tested tool. Educators, students and others around the world are already using digital storytelling to support the educational process. I propose to give an overview of this exciting concept of using digital narrative in pedagogy and by ESL learners, but a lot of experiment and innovation need to go into it.
1.Concept of Andarmahal-the Universe of Women:
Sultana’s Reality (2017) is an interactive multimedia work that draws on artist and illustrator Afrah Shafiq’s time spent in the archives at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) as part of a fellowship with the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA). Drawing its title from Sultana’s Dream (1905), a science-fiction short story of feminist utopia by Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein, the work circulates primarily as a website with striking animations and playful virtual tunnels. It is an artis t’s interpretation of, and intervention in, the stories of women in the archive. Shafiq’s approach to the material in the collection was in part driven by research and her background in literature but largely a speculative exercise on the inner lives of different women and how they related to and navigated education in pre-independent India, particularly as these experiences are not documented in conventional textual sources from the period. Foregrounding the creative potential of reverie, the artist mobilises a variety of popular visual codes such as tarot, cinema posters and early Microsoft interfaces, among others, to draw viewers into the intricate and complex experiences of women in the region’s recent history.
t I was interested in looking at not only how women were represented in art but also in the ideas of cheek and impudence. I was then reading The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990 by Radha Kumar, and remember the small, everyday acts of protest she wrote about. In the late nineteenth century, Anandibai Joshi and Kashibai Kanitkar decided to wear shoes and carry umbrellas and walk on the streets—not a big deal for us today but at that point was a way of claiming superiority, and people threw stones at them. Savitribai Phule had garbage and sewage water thrown at her while on her way to teach, and so she started carrying an extra sari to change into once she reached school. These are examples of women’s resistances, and within them there’s cheek, and I went into the archive looking for this element of cheek.
The universe of women while thinking with old days its all about household children and waiting for husband nursing him feeding them this is the whole universe of women but in this concept women are how educated themself and benefit by education their life changing movement. In Andarmahal concept a great ladies who have the power of changing world of women their beautiful portared and digital technique their beautiful conversation and personally i like most puzzle of books which going to one women to other women.
2.Observation of females and their connection with books:
While she wasn’t specifically looking at books or women while going through the archives, she discovered that the images of the women in the artwork could be broken into a kind of thematic visual imagination.
Whenever she came across an image of a woman with a book – in some images, women were into the books, in some they were annoyed – there was an urge to decipher the story behind it. “I started looking at the images as research material, and decoding how visual history and textual history can speak to each other.”
In my observation i didn't know the women in sultana’s reality but she eat books and some womens who have very famous for their work on education and social development of women in puzzle and other photographs their passing books each others and educated whole woman and by education they denied such ridiculous law this is also a vital role of women's education and books.
Shafiq has also highlighted the struggles women underwent to acquire an education. Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain – whose Sultana’s Dream was an inspiration for Shafiq’s project – would study in secret at night and opened one of the first schools for Muslim girls, where they had access to subjects like chemistry, botany and gymnastics. Savitribai Phule had garbage thrown at her when she walked to school.
Ramabai Ranade was a pioneering social worker, who advocated women’s rights and equality in the early 1900s. Ranade’s husband was a reformer – in fact, she belonged to the early generations of Indian women who were schooled by their husbands. While she was an enthusiastic learner, this also stemmed from a desire to please her husband and conform to his authority.
3.Compare both Narrative:
Rokeya’s exceptional work Sultana’s Dream is based on an imagined Ladyland where women seem to have access to public spaces without being restricted by social or religious customs. The conversion of Ladyland from a male dominated space was conceived as unrealistic by Sultana. She experiences herself as free by first reclaiming a public space where she is not subjected to male gaze and surveillance.
The story reveals various emotions felt by women facing patriarchal oppression. The writing style depicts emotions of anger, fear and constant urge to challenge male authority. Rokeya makes several attempts at engaging the female reader and reminding them of their own worth and question the patriarchal power that confines them to the domestic realm. In the story, women are shown as more rational and scientific than men, wherein Sara (the protagonist’s imaginary friend) is a scientific researcher who considers women as superior to men.
One young girl sits near the window and reads Sultana’s Dreamand suddenly notices a sky full of women outside. Who are these flying women and how did they get there? Leaning out to investigate, she tumbles into a vortex of women’s histories.
In this Alice in Wonderland style adventure, scroll through five chapters of the relationship between women and books in India. How they avoided them, read them, hated them, loved them and eventually wrote them.
This encyclopedic story, titled Sultana’s Reality, is stitched together with written accounts of different women – who were stoned for wearing shoes and carrying umbrellas; who would rather nap than read; who read in secret at night; who read forbidden texts; who read and then challenged the very people who encouraged them to read… and who went on to write books, telling their story in their own words. The women in these books and the books in these women are full of intimacy, chaos, cynicism, anger, humor, beauty, love – together they make their history, and this story.
Both are based on Sultana but narration is different personally i like dream because in lady land womens are everything they made their own decision and men are caring child and work in household specially i like the car flying in the sky but reality is most important for us in the reality because those ladies i am setting here and writing blog on that one is totally dream and on has the reality contribution of some well known women like Savitribai and others.
I am attaching both the video and link you can and enjoy and one thing i want to tell you my all readers their is on sexy poem or song in sultana’s reality it was very interesting do watch and tell me if i am left something important.
Works Cited
“Digital storytelling - University of Wollongong – UOW.” UOW, https://www.uow.edu.au/student/learning-co-op/assessments/digital-storytelling/. Accessed 21 June 2022.
thomas, beena, editor. “Digital narration.” 2011, https://sites.google.com/site/journaloftechnologyforelt/archive/july2011/digital-narrative.
YouTube, 17 April 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIix-yVzheM&t=3s. Accessed 21 June 2022.
