Culture and Politics in South Asia : Performative Communication (Hardcover)

List of Figures. Foreword. Preface: A Personal Note of Public Significance. Acknowledgements. Contributors 1. Introduction: Towards an Inconclusive Scheme of Performative Communication Dev Nath Pathak and Sasanka Perera  Unfolding the Discursive Terrain 2. Scripting Violence, Performing Terror: A Discursive Soliloquy Sasanka Perera 3. Performance of Personal and National Redefinition: Combining the Global and the National in Indian Media and Politics Stephen D. McDowell, Barbara Robinson, Azmat Rasul Implications of Performative Politics 4. Nationalistic Authorship and Resistance: Performative Politics in Post-war Northeastern Sri Lanka Rachel Seoighe 5. Teshro Lingis and Dalals: Gender Performance and the Question of Foreclosure in contemporary Political discourse of Nepal Sanjeev Uprety 6. Protests, Resistance and Violence: The Collective Performance of Everyday Images in Manipur Jayanta Vishnu Das 7. Civil society as a Site of Performed Identity: Exploring the Naga Context Rashi Bhargava 8. The Magic called Elections: Polls, Performance and Citizenship Amiya Kumar Das Myriad Mediums and Multiple Metaphors 9. Depicting Labour, Performing Labour: Working Women in Pranlal Patel’s Jyoti Sangh Series Lisa Trivedi 10. Performative Politics and The Iconography of Gita Press: A Critical Reading Ritu Sinha 11. Performative Implications of Genres: A Critical Rumination Chandrani Chatterjee 12. Bhojpuri Folksongs as Scripts of Conjugal Performance Asha Singh 13. Cinematic Construction of Other: Performing Pakistan in Hindi Cinema Vaishali Raghuvanshi and Sanjeev Kumar H. M. 14. Performing the Printed: In the Robe with the Meanings of Block Printing Ektaa Jain Socio-cultural Public sphere(s) 15. Performative Shahbag: Debating Culture and Politics of Youth in Contemporary Bangladesh Ratan Kumar Roy 16. Performing Democracy: On the Communicative Structure of News Television Abhijit Roy 17. Conflicting Moralities of Indian Nation: Reasoning with Vijay Tendulkar’s Theatre Dev N Pathak and Avanti Chhatre. Index