The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition by

Description: The Performance of Nationalism by Jisha Menon 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Imagine the patriotic camaraderie of national day parades. How crucial is performance for the sustenance of the nation? The Performance of Nationalism considers the formation of the Indian and Pakistani nation, in the wake of the most violent chapter of its history: the partition of the subcontinent. In the process, Jisha Menon offers a fresh analysis of nationalism from the perspective of performance. Menon recuperates 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 Ritwik Ghatak and M. S. Sathyu. By pointing to the tropes of twins, doubles, and doppelgängers that suffuse these performances, this study troubles the idea of two insular, autonomous nation-states of India and Pakistan. In the process, Menon recovers mimetic modes of thinking that unsettle the reified categories of identity politics. Author Biography Jisha Menon is Assistant Professor of Drama at Stanford University, California. Table of Contents 1. Introduction; 2. Bordering on drama: the performance of politics and the politics of performance; 3. Ghataks 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. Review Menon convincingly demonstrates the political power of aesthetics, and goes on to show that film, theatre, music, and literature potentially undo rigid formations of national identity … The Performance of Nationalism offers a refreshingly interdisciplinary approach to thinking through politics and performance. Menons book is especially successful in positioning sonic elements of performance as gestures of political critique … Ultimately, Menons book reminds us that performance is both a tool of nation-making and a medium to critique and undo dangerous forms of nationalism. Kareem Khubchandani, Theatre JournalMenons book elegantly executes a performative reading of various aesthetic memories of partition, focusing on the affective and performative constitution of the Indian and Pakistani nation and their continuing effects on the ways in which identities are discursively produced in modern South Asia … Menons pathbreaking methodological approach challenges the reader to consider the performative implications and connections of big and small actions across genres and mediums within nationalist South Asian milieux. K. Frances Lieder, Asian Theatre JournalWhat the book offers, up against conventional histories, are close readings of alternative narratives, carefully chosen instances of public performance that disrupt, unsettle, astonish, and more than anything, provoke us to rethink conventional wisdom about the event, the major parties, and the ordinary people who have lived in its wake … Menons understanding of mimesis adds to an intellectual lineage spanning Walter Benjamin, Rene Girard, and Michael Taussig. Pamela Lothspeich, Modern DramaJisha Menon presents a highly useful scholarly study of the partition of India and Pakistan, analysing this division as fuelled more by political than religious and ethnic forces … She proposes a notion of performance, via dramatic and filmic representations of Partition from the 1960s to 2010 ... that trouble the idea of two coherent, autonomous nation-states of India and Pakistan by pointing to the trope of mimetic doubles that suffuse the dramas of Partition. Ketu H. Katrak, Feminist ReviewJisha Menons book is an incredible intervention in debates of nationalist identity constitution through an expansive understanding of the categories of performance … This is a powerful book that should be read by all those who are studying performance, representation and the constitution of national identity. Neelam Mansingh, The Book Review Promotional Jisha Menons book explores the mimetic relationships between history and political performance and between India and Pakistan. Review Quote Menon convincingly demonstrates the political power of aesthetics, and goes on to show that film, theatre, music, and literature potentially undo rigid formations of national identity ... The Performance of Nationalism offers a refreshingly interdisciplinary approach to thinking through politics and performance. Menons book is especially successful in positioning sonic elements of performance as gestures of political critique ... Ultimately, Menons book reminds us that performance is both a tool of nation-making and a medium to critique and undo dangerous forms of nationalism. Kareem Khubchandani, Theatre Journal Promotional "Headline" Jisha Menons book explores the mimetic relationships between history and political performance and between India and Pakistan. Description for Bookstore 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. Description for Library 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. Details ISBN110846856X Author Jisha Menon Pages 272 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2018 ISBN-10 110846856X ISBN-13 9781108468565 Format Paperback Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 792.0954 Birth 1972 Affiliation Stanford University, California Publication Date 2018-08-30 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 13 Halftones, unspecified; 13 Halftones, black and white Short Title The Performance of Nationalism Language English UK Release Date 2018-08-30 AU Release Date 2018-08-30 NZ Release Date 2018-08-30 Series Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre Alternative 9780511686900 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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