Performance of Nationalism - India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition

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

List of 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.

About the author

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

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? This book offers a fresh analysis of nationalism from the perspective of performance and will appeal to those with an interest in history, culture or politics.

Product details

• Authors: Jisha Menon, Jisha (Stanford University Menon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108468565
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46856-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre; Cambridge Studies in Modern Th; Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Pakistan, Nationalism, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, India, Theatre Studies, Black & Asian Studies