Culture and Politics in South Asia
eBook - ePub

Culture and Politics in South Asia

Performative Communication

  1. 318 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Culture and Politics in South Asia

Performative Communication

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Foreword
  9. Preface: a personal note of public significance
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. 1 Introduction: towards an inconclusive scheme of performative communication
  12. PART I Unfolding the discursive terrain
  13. PART II Implications of performative politics
  14. PART III Myriad mediums and multiple metaphors
  15. PART IV Socio-cultural public sphere(s)
  16. Index