The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition

ISBN-13: 9781108468565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str.

Jisha Menon

Opis

Jisha Menon's book explores the mimetic relationships between history and political performance and between India and Pakistan.

Recenzje

'Jisha Menon's book is an incredible intervention in debates of nationalist identity constitution through an expansive understanding of the categories of performance … This is a powerful book that should be read by all those who are studying performance, representation and the constitution of national identity.' Neelam Mansingh, The Book Review

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Bordering on drama: the performance of politics and the politics of performance; 3. Ghatak's cinema and the discoherence of the Bengal partition; 4. The poetics and politics of accommodation; 5. Somatic texts and the gender of partition; 6. Kashmir: hospitality and the 'unfinished business' of partition.