04056nam 22007932 450 991046281750332120151005020622.01-139-85368-61-107-23391-71-139-84460-11-139-84105-X1-283-94295-X1-139-83986-11-139-84566-71-139-84224-20-511-68690-0(CKB)2670000000309924(EBL)1057479(OCoLC)821869697(SSID)ssj0000781846(PQKBManifestationID)11419634(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000781846(PQKBWorkID)10734551(PQKB)11280578(UkCbUP)CR9780511686900(MiAaPQ)EBC1057479(Au-PeEL)EBL1057479(CaPaEBR)ebr10643436(CaONFJC)MIL425545(EXLCZ)99267000000030992420100217d2013|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe performance of nationalism India, Pakistan, and the memory of partition /Jisha Menon[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2013.1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in modern theatreTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-00010-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Bordering on drama: the performance of politics and the politics of performance -- Ghatak's cinema and the discoherence of the Bengal partition -- The poetics and politics of accommodation -- Somatic texts and the gender of partition -- Kashmir: hospitality and the "unfinished business" of partition.Imagine the patriotic camaraderie of national day parades. How crucial is performance for the sustenance of the nation? The Performance of Nationalism considers the formation of the Indian and Pakistani nation, in the wake of the most violent chapter of its history: the partition of the subcontinent. In the process, Jisha Menon offers a fresh analysis of nationalism from the perspective of performance. Menon recuperates the manifold valences of 'mimesis' as aesthetic representation, as the constitution of a community of witnesses, and as the mimetic relationality that underlies the encounter between India and Pakistan. The particular performances considered here range from Wagah border ceremonies, to the partition theatre of Asghar Wajahat, Kirti Jain, M. K. Raina, and the cinema of Ritwik Ghatak and M. S. Sathyu. By pointing to the tropes of twins, doubles, and doppelgangers that suffuse these performances, this study troubles the idea of two insular, autonomous nation-states of India and Pakistan. In the process, Menon recovers mimetic modes of thinking that unsettle the reified categories of identity politics.Cambridge studies in modern theatre.Indic drama20th centuryHistory and criticismNationalism in literaturePartition, Territorial, in literatureMotion pictures, IndicNationalism in motion picturesIndiaHistoryPartition, 1947InfluenceIndiaIn literaturePakistanIn literatureIndiaIn motion picturesPakistanIn motion picturesIndic dramaHistory and criticism.Nationalism in literature.Partition, Territorial, in literature.Motion pictures, Indic.Nationalism in motion pictures.891/.1Menon Jisha1972-1049138UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910462817503321The performance of nationalism2477886UNINA