TY - BOOK ID - 68356084 TI - The performance of nationalism PY - 2013 SN - 9781107000100 1107000106 9780511686900 9781139839860 1139839861 9781139844604 1139844601 0511686900 9781283942959 128394295X 1139853686 9781139853682 1107233917 9781107233911 1139845667 9781139845663 1139842242 9781139842242 113984105X 110846856X PB - Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Performing arts KW - Social aspects KW - Political aspects KW - Indic drama KW - Nationalism in literature. KW - Partition, Territorial, in literature. KW - Partition, Territorial, in motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures, Indic. KW - Nationalism in motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures KW - East Indian motion pictures KW - Indic motion pictures KW - Motion pictures, East Indian KW - Foreign films KW - Indic literature KW - History and criticism. KW - India KW - Pakistan KW - Dominion of Pakistan KW - Bākistān KW - Islamic Republic of Pakistan KW - Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Pakistan KW - Islami Jamhuriya e Pakistan KW - Pākistāna KW - پاکِستان KW - Islāmī Jumhūrī-ye Pākistān KW - باكستان KW - Paquistan KW - Пакістан KW - Ісламская Рэспубліка Пакістан KW - Пакистан KW - Ислямска република Пакистан KW - Isli︠a︡mska republika Pakistan KW - Islamische Republik Pakistan KW - Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah KW - Pakistani Islamivabariik KW - Πακιστάν KW - Ισλαμική Δημοκρατία του Πακιστάν KW - Islamikē Dēmokratia tou Pakistan KW - Jamhuryat Islami Pakistan KW - State of Pakistan KW - Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān KW - パキスタン KW - Pakisutan KW - West Pakistan (Pakistan) KW - History KW - Influence. KW - In literature. KW - In motion pictures. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68356084 AB - 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 doppelgangers 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. ER -