TY  - BOOK
AU  - Menon,Jisha
TI  - The performance of nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the memory of Partition 
T2  - Cambridge studies in modern theatre
SN  - 9781139839860
AV  - PK5421 .M46 2013eb
U1  - 891/.1 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, UK
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Indic drama
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Nationalism in literature
KW  - Partition, Territorial, in literature
KW  - Motion pictures, Indic
KW  - Nationalism in motion pictures
KW  - Théâtre de l'Inde
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Nationalisme dans la littérature
KW  - Démembrement des nations dans la littérature
KW  - Cinéma de l'Inde
KW  - Nationalisme au cinéma
KW  - DRAMA
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Literature
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Partition, 1947
KW  - Influence
KW  - In literature
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - In motion pictures
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-256) and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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