Mourning The Nation by Bhaskar Sarkar
Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition
Drawing on film theory, trauma studies, and critiques of nation-formation, this study examines how post-1947 Indian cinema grapples with the grief and dislocations of Partition. It argues that both popular and art films stage an ongoing work of mourning—through melodrama, allegory, and recurring motifs of rupture, exile, and maternal sacrifice—that helps imagine and contest national community. Through close readings of canonical works, it shows how loss is aestheticized and politicized, revealing a melancholic undercurrent that shapes spectatorship and public culture, and reframing cinema as a key arena where historical catastrophe is continually negotiated rather than resolved.
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- Published
- 2009
- Nationality
- Indian
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 400-450
- Original Language
- English
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