Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Politics of Cultural Homogenization and Territorialization: Representation of Northeast in Tinkle's WingStar Series Subject The topic of the resource Cultural appropriation; homogenization; identity politics; Northeast; reterritorialization; Tinkle; WingStar Description An account of the resource Tinkle, the children's magazine in English in India has been instrumental in shaping the imagination of the young urban Indian child ever since its inception in 1980. No other magazine has the readership and reach that Tinkle enjoys with a circulation of more than 3 lakh. The fact that Tinkle has survived unlike many other magazines in India for 40 odd years is testimony (marketing strategies aside) of its reach and popularity. Tinkle, ever since the days of its founder-editor Anant Pai, has been instrumental in constructing imagined communities of national identities for children in India over the decades since the 1970s ever since the Amar Chitra Kathas. One such attempt in constructing children's imaginaries is the addition of a series Wing Star in 2015, scripted by Sean D'mello and inked by Vineet Nair that features Mapui Kawlim, a 13-year-old superhero from Aizwal, Mizoram. While it is empowering that a national mainstream popular magazine for children would feature a female superhero from among the less represented Northeastern states, what is problematic, according to this study, is the manner in which there has been a conscious erasure of all markers of her ethnicity by appropriating her into the larger mainstream homogenised pan-Indian identity of a young female superhero with no specific markers to represent the culture she belongs to. This study will attempt to read this 'sanitised' representation of a Northeastern superhero in the light of the idea of cultural appropriation and deterritorialization and reterritorialization posited by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari that looks at the erasure of specific ethnic and other identities markers. This study will also engage with the implications of how 'sanitised' representations like this in popular narratives would construct and homogenise the imaginaries of the children of a country as they would grow up with erroneous notions of cultural ethnicities and diversity within the country adding to the problematics of marginalisation and hegemonic nationalities. 2022 Aesthetics Media Services. All rights reserved. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Abraham R.E. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol-14, No. 2 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Aesthetics Media Services Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n2.ne33" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n2.ne33</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85134817070&amp;doi=10.21659%2Frupkatha.v14n2.ne33&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=3843124ffe8d87aed5ba2fe61e910a70" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85134817070&amp;doi=10.21659%2frupkatha.v14n2.ne33&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=3843124ffe8d87aed5ba2fe61e910a70</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Open Access; Gold Open Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 9752935 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Abraham R.E., Dept of English and Cultural Studies, Christ University, Bengaluru, India