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Mourning the Nation

Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition

Szerző: Bhaskar Sarkar

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Duke University Press

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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What remains of the 'national' when the nation unravels at the birth of the independent state? The p...

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Szerző

Bhaskar Sarkar

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2009

oldal

384

EAN

9780822344117

ISBN

0822344114

Enbook ID

04938903

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

602

Méretek

156 x 235 x 23

Teljes leírás

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 film studies, trauma theory, and South Asian cultural history, Bhaskar Sarkar follows the shifting traces of this event in Indian cinema over the next six decades. He argues that Partition remains a wound in the collective psyche of South Asia and that its representation on screen enables forms of historical engagement that are largely opaque to standard historiography. Sarkar tracks the initial reticence to engage with the trauma of 1947 and the subsequent emergence of a strong Partition discourse, revealing both the silence and the eventual 'return of the repressed' as strands of one complex process. Connecting the relative silence of the early decades after Partition to a project of postcolonial nation-building and to trauma's disjunctive temporal structure, Sarkar develops an allegorical reading of the silence as a form of mourning. He relates the proliferation of explicit Partition narratives in films made since the mid-1980s to disillusionment with post-independence achievements, and he discusses how current cinematic memorializations of 1947 are influenced by economic liberalization and the rise of a Hindu-chauvinist nationalism. Traversing Hindi and Bengali commercial cinema, art cinema, and television, Sarkar provides a history of Indian cinema that interrogates the national (a central category organizing cinema studies) and participates in a wider process of mourning the modernist promises of the nation form.