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The performance of nationalism : India, Pakistan, and the memory of Partition /
"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 mani...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in modern theatre.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 374 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139839860 1139839861 9781139844604 1139844601 9780511686900 0511686900 9781283942959 128394295X 1139853686 9781139853682 1107233917 9781107233911 1139845667 9781139845663 1139842242 9781139842242 |