Pakistani art Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Extensive reading for an essay that received 70 mark (First) Last document update:   ago

Documents include extensive reading for an essay which received a First grade. 2 weeks worth of readings and notes. (25 pages) Readings include: Anne McClintock. ‘Family Feuds: Gender, Nationalism and the Family’, Feminist Review No. 44, Summer 1993, pp.61-80 The Erotic Vatan [Homeland] as Beloved and Mother: To Love, to Possess, and To Protect Author(s): Afsaneh Najmabadi Source: Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Jul., 1997), pp. 442-467 C H AP TE R ...

A review of two Pakistani theatre shows in reference to academic theories of nationalism Last document update:   ago

intro - "I will be reviewing two plays performed by Ajoka Theatre: Barri, and Kala Meda Bhes, in reference to Anne McClintock and Afsaneh Najmabadi’s theories of nationalism. McClintock explores the nation as an extended family, wherein this domestic metaphor for the nation offers a ‘natural’ social hierarchy which sustains masculine dominance. Whilst men represent progressive modernity, women’s domestic roles as mothers and nurturers are politicised and their political role is attach...