• Pushpita Basumatary

Disney's 2016 animated film Moana is analyzed here from a Posthuman Ecocritical perspective, looking into how Moana remaps the ocean not as a background that remains fixed but as a posthuman force of memory, identity, and opposition. built upon Posthumanism, Indigenous epistemologies, and the Blue Humanities, this study investigates how the film generates an oceanic sense of place and relational self created through more-than-human relationalities. Through an investigation of the ocean's symbolic and narrative functions, Moana's self-formation, and interconnectedness of land, sea, and self, this essay contends that Moana presents itself as a robust, decolonial eco-narrative grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems and ecocentric ethics.

Posthuman Ecocriticism, Blue Humanities, Moana, Indigenous Identity, Oceanic Belonging.

"Oceanic Belonging and Posthuman Identity: A Posthuman Ecocritical Reading of Disney's Moana", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 7, page no.c636-c638, July-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2507267.pdf

"Oceanic Belonging and Posthuman Identity: A Posthuman Ecocritical Reading of Disney's Moana", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 7, page no. ppc636-c638, July-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2507267.pdf