Jisha Menon is Assistant Professor of Drama at Stanford University, California.

'Menon convincingly demonstrates the political power of aesthetics, and goes on to show that film, theatre, music, and literature potentially undo rigid formations of national identity … The Performance of Nationalism offers a refreshingly interdisciplinary approach to thinking through politics and performance. Menon's book is especially successful in positioning sonic elements of performance as gestures of political critique … Ultimately, Menon's book reminds us that performance is both a tool of nation-making and a medium to critique and undo dangerous forms of nationalism.' Kareem Khubchandani, Theatre Journal

• 1. Introduction; 2. Bordering on drama: the performance of politics and the politics of performance; 3. Ghatak's cinema and the discoherence of the Bengal partition; 4. The poetics and politics of accommodation; 5. Somatic texts and the gender of partition; 6. Kashmir: hospitality and the 'unfinished business' of partition.

Jisha Menon is Assistant Professor of Drama at Stanford University, California.

'Menon convincingly demonstrates the political power of aesthetics, and goes on to show that film, theatre, music, and literature potentially undo rigid formations of national identity … The Performance of Nationalism offers a refreshingly interdisciplinary approach to thinking through politics and performance. Menon's book is especially successful in positioning sonic elements of performance as gestures of political critique … Ultimately, Menon's book reminds us that performance is both a tool of nation-making and a medium to critique and undo dangerous forms of nationalism.' Kareem Khubchandani, Theatre Journal

• 1. Introduction; 2. Bordering on drama: the performance of politics and the politics of performance; 3. Ghatak's cinema and the discoherence of the Bengal partition; 4. The poetics and politics of accommodation; 5. Somatic texts and the gender of partition; 6. Kashmir: hospitality and the 'unfinished business' of partition.

Jisha Menon is Assistant Professor of Drama at Stanford University, California.

'Menon convincingly demonstrates the political power of aesthetics, and goes on to show that film, theatre, music, and literature potentially undo rigid formations of national identity … The Performance of Nationalism offers a refreshingly interdisciplinary approach to thinking through politics and performance. Menon's book is especially successful in positioning sonic elements of performance as gestures of political critique … Ultimately, Menon's book reminds us that performance is both a tool of nation-making and a medium to critique and undo dangerous forms of nationalism.' Kareem Khubchandani, Theatre Journal

• 1. Introduction; 2. Bordering on drama: the performance of politics and the politics of performance; 3. Ghatak's cinema and the discoherence of the Bengal partition; 4. The poetics and politics of accommodation; 5. Somatic texts and the gender of partition; 6. Kashmir: hospitality and the 'unfinished business' of partition.