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The performance of nationalism : India, Pakistan, and the memory of partition / / Jisha Menon [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Menon Jisha <1972-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The performance of nationalism : India, Pakistan, and the memory of partition / / Jisha Menon [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 891/.1
Soggetto topico: Indic drama - 20th century - History and criticism
Nationalism in literature
Partition, Territorial, in literature
Motion pictures, Indic
Nationalism in motion pictures
Soggetto geografico: India History Partition, 1947 Influence
India In literature
Pakistan In literature
India In motion pictures
Pakistan In motion pictures
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The performance of nationalism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-139-85368-6
1-107-23391-7
1-139-84460-1
1-139-84105-X
1-283-94295-X
1-139-83986-1
1-139-84566-7
1-139-84224-2
0-511-68690-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462817503321
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Serie: Cambridge studies in modern theatre.