Culture and Politics in South Asia
Subtitle: Performative Communication
By: Dev Nath Pathak
Contributors: Perera, Sasanka
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781315158297; 9781351656146; 9781351656122; 9781138201132; 9781351656139
Subjects: Social life and customs; Politics and government; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Anthropology; Cultural; Media Studies; Manners and customs
Description: "This volume looks at the politics of communication and culture in contemporary South Asia. It explores languages, signs and symbols reflective of current mythologies that underpin instances of performance in present-day India and its neighbouring countries. From gender performances and stage depictions to protest movements, folk songs to cinematic reconstructions and elections to war-torn regions, the chapters in the book bring the multiple voices embedded within the grand theatre of popular performance and the cultural landscape of the region to the fore. Breaking new ground, this work will prove useful to students and researchers in sociology and social anthropology, art and performance studies, political studies and international relations, communication and media studies and culture studies."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Preface: a personal note of public significance; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: towards an inconclusive scheme of performative communication; PART I Unfolding the discursive terrain; 2 Scripting violence, performing terror: a discursive soliloquy; 3 Performance of personal and national redefinition: combining the global and the national in Indian media and politics; PART II Implications of performative politics.; title: 4 Nationalistic authorship and resistance: performative politics in post-war Northeastern Sri Lanka; 5 Teshro lingis and dalals: gender performance and the question of foreclosure in contemporary political discourse of Nepal; 6 Protests, resistance and violence: the collective performance of everyday images in Manipur; 7 Civil society as a site of performed identity: exploring the Naga context; 8 The magic called elections: polls, performance and citizenship; PART III Myriad mediums and multiple metaphors.; title: 9 Depicting labour, performing labour: working women in Pranlal Patel's Jyoti Sangh series; 10 Performative politics and the iconography of Gita Press: a critical reading; 11 Performative implications of genres: a critical rumination; 12 Bhojpuri folk songs as scripts of conjugal performance; 13 Cinematic construction of other: performing Pakistan in Hindi cinema; 14 Performing the printed: in the robe with the meanings of block printing; PART IV Socio-cultural public sphere(s); 15 Performative Shahbag: debating culture and politics of youth in contemporary Bangladesh.; title: 16 Performing democracy: on the communicative structure of news television; 17 Conflicting moralities of Indian nation: reasoning with Vijay Tendulkar's theatre; Index.