Slumdog Literacy

Movie analysis: The heros journey in Slumdog Millionaire - by Melissa Miles McCarter - Helium

Slumdog Millionaire demonstrates the interactions between postmodernism, post-colonialism and discursive practices that reveal how orality and literacy function within certain communities. Specifically, language functions within the movie to illuminate postmodern notions of community. According to Diane Davis, communitarian literacy is not about exclusions, even though in many cultures, literacy can be seen as a way to stratify people and organize them in specific dynamics which prevent true connection beyond notions of identity, class, or other social categories. This stratification can be seen in Slumdog Millionaire in the social pressures that the young characters face, whether it is trying to survive the slums they grew up in, escape the control of gangsters or function within a corporate dominated worldall situations determined by the social conditions of first colonialism and then postcolonialism.

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