The performance of nationalism : India, Pakistan, and the memory of Partition / Jisha Menon.

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Menon, Jisha, 1972-

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9781139839860
1139839861
9781139844604
1139844601
9780511686900
0511686900
9781283942959
128394295X
1139853686
9781139853682
1107233917
9781107233911
1139845667
9781139845663
1139842242
9781139842242

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Performance of nationalism.DDC classification:

891/.1 23

LOC classification:

PK5421 .M46 2013eb

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DRA003000

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Contents:

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.

Summary: "Imagine the patriotic camaraderie of national day parades. How does performance generate patriotic loyalty? How crucial is performance for the sustenance of the nation? The Performance of Nationalism offers a new analysis of nationalism from the perspective of performance, focusing on 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 Ritwick Ghatak and M.S. Sathyu. By pointing to the tropes of twins, doubles and doppelgangers that suffuse these performances, this study unpicks the idea of two insular, autonomous nation-states of India and Pakistan. In the process, Jisha Menon recovers mimetic modes of thinking that unsettle the reified categories of identity politics"-- Provided by publisher

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-256) and index.

"Imagine the patriotic camaraderie of national day parades. How does performance generate patriotic loyalty? How crucial is performance for the sustenance of the nation? The Performance of Nationalism offers a new analysis of nationalism from the perspective of performance, focusing on 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 Ritwick Ghatak and M.S. Sathyu. By pointing to the tropes of twins, doubles and doppelgangers that suffuse these performances, this study unpicks the idea of two insular, autonomous nation-states of India and Pakistan. In the process, Jisha Menon recovers mimetic modes of thinking that unsettle the reified categories of identity politics"-- Provided by publisher