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Mourning the nation : Indian cinema in the wake of Partition /
What remains of the "national" when the nation unravels at the birth of the independent state? The political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947 led to a social cataclysm in which roughly one million people died, and 10 to 12 million were displaced. Combining fi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham [NC] :
Duke University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : national cinema's hermeneutic of mourning
- Cinema's project of nationhood
- Runes of laceration
- Bengali cinema : a spectral subnationality
- Dispersed nodes of articulation
- Ghatak, melodrama, and the restitution of experience
- Tamas and the limits of representation
- Mourning (un)limited
- Coda : the critical enchantment of mourning.