Performance and the Culture of Nationalism: Tracing Rhizomatic Lived Experiences of South, Central and Southeast Asia

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Performing Nation, Nationalising Performance
Section I Framing Parameters of Narrative/National/Lived Experience
	A: South Asia
	Chapter 1 Framing Martyrdom as Cultural Performance in Bengali Revolutionary Nationalism
	Chapter 2 The Making of the Audience in Colonial Bengali Public Theatre
	Chapter 3 En(gender)ing Indian Nationalism through Dance: Kathak – Classical Metanarrative
	Chapter 4 Shifting Hues in a City’s Culture: Traced through the 88 Keys of a Piano
	B: Rhizomatic Pattern: East and Southeast Asia
	Chapter 5 The Politics of Cultural Intimacies in Asia: Writing about Dramatic Performances in East and South-East Asia in Twentieth-Century Bengali Literary Journals
Section II Small Voices of Alterity
	A: South Asia
	Chapter 6 Remembering and Encountering Death Collectively: Practice and Performances in the ‘Khawhar Hla’ (Songs for the Dead) among the Zo Christians in Northeastern India
	Chapter 7 Identity through Subtraction: K-Pop Fans from Northeast India Create a New Identity of Their Own
	Chapter 8 Movie Making in the Mind: A Case Study
	B: Rhizomatic Pattern: Central Asia
	Chapter 9 Pains and Pangs of Post-Soviet Nationhood: Experiences of Tajikistan through Pastiches of Celluloid Representation
Section III Spectacularity, Mythification and Ritualistic Understanding/Countering of National Identity
	A: South Asia
	Chapter 10 The Work of Art, The Mirror of Time: Theatre, Actress, and the Audience in NineteenthCentury Bengal
	Chapter 11 Ram Ke Naam: Performing/Sloganeering Identity in Ramjanmabhumi Movement
	Chapter 12 The Sword Unsheathed: Utpal Dutt’s Tiner Tolowar and Crisis of Performance: A Postmodern Reading
	B: Rhizomatic Pattern: Southeast Asia
	Chapter 13 Identity through Reiteration: Myth, Memory, Magic in Tess Uriza Holthe’s When the Elephants Dance
Index