Film, Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Beyond Partition
Redaktion: Langah, Nukhbah Taj; Sengupta, Roshni

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together new studies and interdisciplinary research on the changing mediascapes in South Asia. Focusing on India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it explores the transformations in the sphere of cinema, television, performance art, visual cultures, cyber space and digital media, beyond the partitions of 1947 and 1971.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000422573
• Artikelnr.: 62144534

Autorenporträt

Nukhbah Taj Langah is Associate Professor of English at Forman Christian College University, Lahore, Pakistan. Roshni Sengupta is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Moving beyond Partitions: Theorising the Academic Dialogue
Part I. Soft Power: Performance, Film and Television 1. Trouble in
Paradise: The Portrayal of the Kashmir Insurgency in Hindi 2. The Vale of
Desire: Framing Kashmir in Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider 3. Finding Comfort in
Silence? The Absence of Partition Narratives from the Contemporary Group
Theatre in Kolkata 4. The Rise of the Celebrity Anchor in Pakistan's
Private TV: The One Voice that Kills Other Voices Part II. Art and Visual
Culture 5. Discourses on Partition through Visual Culture 6. Post-71:
Photographic Ambivalences, Archives, and the Construction of a National
Identity of Bangladesh 7. Speaking Soon after Catastrophe: The Partition
Art of Satish Gujral and S. L. Parasher as Record, Testimony, Trauma Part
III. Cyber Space, Social Media, and Digital Texts 8. Politicising the Body
of the 'Other': India's Gaze at Pakistan 9. Keyboard Nations: Cyberhate and
Partition Anxiety on Social Media 10. Pakistani Literary Digitalisation:
"Mediascaping" Mohsin Hamid's "The (Former) General in his Labyrinth".
Conclusion - Reflections: Building Bridges