@article{847570,
      author = {Menon, Jisha,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/847570},
      title = {The performance of nationalism India, Pakistan, and the  memory of Partition / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      recid = {847570},
      pages = {xii, 260 p. :},
      address = {Cambridge :},
      year = {2013},
}