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_aMenon, Jisha _9268294 |
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_aThe performance of nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the memory of partition _cMenon, Jisha |
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_aCambridge _bCambridge University Press _c2013 |
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| 300 | _axii, 260 p. | ||
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_aINR _b795.00 |
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_aCambridge Studies in Modern Theatre _9268295 |
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| 520 | _aImagine 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. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aIndic drama - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| 650 | 0 | _aNationalism in literature | |
| 650 | 0 | _aPartition, Territorial, in literature | |
| 650 | 0 | _aMotion pictures, Indic | |
| 650 | 0 | _aNationalism in motion pictures | |
| 650 | 7 | _aDrama - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh | |
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_aIndia - History - Partition, 1947 - Influence _9268302 |
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_aIndia - In literature _9268303 |
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_aPakistan - In literature _9268304 |
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_aIndia - In motion pictures _9268305 |
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_aPakistan - In motion pictures _9268306 |
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