Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition by Bhaskar Sarkar - 2009-06-01

Duke University Press, 2009. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Durham.: Duke University Press. 2009.. Black and white photographic illustrations, xi + 372, notes, bibliography, index. Very good paperback copy. 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… Read More

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Duke Univ Pr, 2009. Paperback. New. 384 pages. 9.75x6.00x1.00 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. A work of film studies that traces how the traumatic Partition of India and Pakistan has been represented (or not represented) in Indian cinema from 1947 to the present.

Duke University Press Books, 2009-06-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!