Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13698019900510301
V. Fazila-Yacoobali
This essay draws upon the anthropological conceptualization of ‘rites of passage’ to consider the 1947 Partition of the Indian sub-continent as such a rite, into what Liisa Malkki has called the national order of things. As a rite of passage, analytically distinguished into three phases of separation, transition or limen and incorporation, Partition stories can be seen as potentially about the phase of liminality — Pakistani-Indian and not-Pakistaninot-Indian — a liminality which is both ‘structurally invisible’ and deeply threatening to the ‘stable state’ or national order. In particular this essay focuses on Pakistan, which has often been written about as if lacking a national identity, to suggest that the instability of Pakistan's nationalist narratives provide a productive opening into examining this rite of passage. It does so by exploring Muhajirs as a recalcitrant liminal category, K. K. Aziz's lament over the absence of national history writing and the constitution of Dawn as a national newspaper.
这篇文章借鉴了“通过仪式”的人类学概念，将1947年印度次大陆的分割视为这样一种仪式，进入Liisa Malkki所说的国家秩序。作为一种仪式，从分析上分为分离、过渡或limen和合并三个阶段，分界故事可以被视为潜在的阈限阶段——巴基斯坦裔印度人和非巴基斯坦裔印度人——这种阈限既“结构上看不清”，又深深威胁着“稳定状态”或国家秩序。这篇文章特别关注巴基斯坦，它经常被描述为缺乏国家认同，这表明巴基斯坦民族主义叙事的不稳定性为研究这一仪式提供了一个富有成效的开端。它通过探索muhajir作为一个顽固的界限类别，k·k·阿齐兹(K. K. Aziz)对缺乏国家历史写作的哀叹，以及《黎明报》作为一份全国性报纸的宪法来实现这一点。
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13698019900510781
A. Donnell
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13698019900510801
Fatma Müge Göçek
This article focuses on the April 1999 ‘headscarf incident’ at the Turkish national assembly when two newly elected headscarved deputies had to be sworn in: while one unveiled for the ceremony to obey the rule on wearing ‘modern’ attire and was sworn in, the other remained veiled, claiming it was her religious responsibility and civil right to do so, only to be protested by the social democrats for politicizing religion, thus having to leave without being sworn in. The argument takes issue with the interpretation of the incident solely as another individual enactment of the secularist-Islamist divide in Turkey, and presents instead a multivalent approach that studies the layers of meaning that form around the incident, comprising political posturing, polarization, intercession and silences. By so doing, the article moves the debate from the personal gendered choices of the protagonists to the societal forces that shape their actions.
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13698019900510581
L. Taylor
Shakespeare was a pervasive presence in the life and work of C. L. R. James, and, along with cricket, was one of the veteran radical's most abiding concerns. In this essay, I set out to explore some of the implications of James' Shakespeare criticism. In Shakespeare's plays, particularly Hamlet and King Lear, James traced the historical provenance of some of the critical problematics of human society, and outlined a challenging method of dialectical literary criticism. This method attended to seemingly contradictory critical tasks, historicism and universalism, allowing James to use Shakespeare as an occasion for dialectical analyses which went far beyond literary criticism alone. James understood Shakespeare as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon, and by exploring how he is able to think both these possibilities at once, it is possible to trace his unique understanding of the critical relationship between the past and the present, and the role of creative activity in mediating between them.
莎士比亚在c·l·r·詹姆斯(C. L. R. James)的生活和工作中无处不在，与板球一样，是这位资深激进分子最持久的关注之一。在这篇文章中，我开始探索詹姆斯的莎士比亚批评的一些含义。在莎士比亚的戏剧中，尤其是《哈姆雷特》和《李尔王》，詹姆斯追溯了人类社会中一些关键问题的历史根源，并概述了一种具有挑战性的辩证文学批评方法。这种方法涉及到看似矛盾的批评任务，历史主义和普遍主义，允许詹姆斯使用莎士比亚作为辩证分析的场合，远远超出了文学批评本身。詹姆斯认为莎士比亚既是一个历史现象，也是一个当代现象，通过探索他如何能够同时思考这两种可能性，有可能追溯他对过去和现在之间的关键关系的独特理解，以及创造性活动在两者之间的中介作用。
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13698019900510291
S. Feldman
Using a feminist episteme I examine the exclusion of the East Bengal/East Pakistan experience in constructions of contemporary narratives of Partition. Including the double colonialism of East Bengal, its particular location in the ethnic and religious hierarchies of the region, and the simultaneity of separation and violence as well as freedom and social mobility challenges the emergent meta-narrative of violence by contributing a contradictory interpretation of the Partition experience. This more complicated, contradictory interpretation extends the important rethinking that accompanies the critique of elitist, state-centred histories of the period and the inclusion of women's voices in Partition analyses. Particular attention is given to how extant circumstances in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh contribute to the erasure of the East Bengal voice from contemporary debates.
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13698019900510321
Deepika Bahri
Bapsi Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India, presents the experiences of women during the violence of the subcontinental partition of 1947. In broaching the topics of rape and trauma, topics considered culturally taboo or unspeakable for subcontinental women, the novel obliges us to confront both the possibilities and the limits of literary representation.
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13698019900510551
A. Quayson
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13698019900510331
Sujata Ramachandran
Much has been written on Hindu nationalism in the past few years. Indeed, the rapid ascendancy of the Hindu Right has been the focus of attention of numerous scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. What remains neglected thus far is the role of recent migrations from Bangladesh, increasingly characterized in popular parlance as ‘infiltration’. The present paper aims to rectify this situation. Applying James Scott's framework on social domination and dissent, this paper identifies and explores the convoluted ties between the phenomenal growth of the Hindu nationalist forces, and clandestine population flows from Bangladesh. The paper argues that while the official sanitized transcript of hindutva positions Indian Muslims at the margins of Hindu nation, undocumented Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh are increasingly viewed as a severe threat to the security and integrity of the Hindu nation. The staggering signal of an ‘invisible invasion’ of India by Bangladeshi ‘infiltrators’ has been expressed throu...
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13698019900510611
B. Moore-gilbert
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13698019900510651
R. Young
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