Jisha Menon

The Performance of Nationalism

India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781107000100
• ISBN-10: 1107000106
• Artikelnr.: 36617394

Autorenporträt

Jisha Menon is Assistant Professor of Drama at Stanford University, California.

Inhaltsangabe

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.