{"title":"A rite of passage","authors":"V. Fazila-Yacoobali","doi":"10.1080/13698019900510301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698019900510301","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46172,"journal":{"name":"Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"183-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13698019900510301","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59764587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dressing with a difference: cultural representation, minority rights and ethnic chic","authors":"A. Donnell","doi":"10.1080/13698019900510781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698019900510781","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46172,"journal":{"name":"Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"489-499"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13698019900510781","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59765534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To veil or not to veil","authors":"Fatma Müge Göçek","doi":"10.1080/13698019900510801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698019900510801","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46172,"journal":{"name":"Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"521-535"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13698019900510801","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59765610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The purpose of playing and the philosophy of history","authors":"L. Taylor","doi":"10.1080/13698019900510581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698019900510581","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46172,"journal":{"name":"Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"373-387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13698019900510581","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59765902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminist interruptions: The silence of East Bengal in the story of partition","authors":"S. Feldman","doi":"10.1080/13698019900510291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698019900510291","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46172,"journal":{"name":"Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"167-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13698019900510291","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59764490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Telling tales: Women and the trauma of partition in Sidhwa's Cracking India","authors":"Deepika Bahri","doi":"10.1080/13698019900510321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698019900510321","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46172,"journal":{"name":"Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies","volume":"266 1","pages":"217-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13698019900510321","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59764864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caribbean configurations: Characterological types and the frames of hybridity","authors":"A. Quayson","doi":"10.1080/13698019900510551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698019900510551","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46172,"journal":{"name":"Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"331-344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13698019900510551","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59764994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Of boundaries and border crossings","authors":"Sujata Ramachandran","doi":"10.1080/13698019900510331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698019900510331","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":46172,"journal":{"name":"Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"235-253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13698019900510331","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59765082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dangerous and wrong","authors":"R. Young","doi":"10.1080/13698019900510651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698019900510651","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46172,"journal":{"name":"Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies","volume":"210 1","pages":"439-464"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13698019900510651","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59765524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On veiling, vision and voyage","authors":"Reina Lewis","doi":"10.1080/13698019900510791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698019900510791","url":null,"abstract":"This article is concerned with the changing significance of the veil in Turkey in the early years of the twentieth century. Its discussion of the political significance of women's dress in a period of accelerated social change is conducted through the analysis of two illustrated books, one by a visiting English feminist and one by a Turkish woman who writes about life in Turkey and her travels in Europe. In this way, the debate about the veil is examined through an analysis of cross-cultural dressing which takes into account the different significations of seclusionary mechanisms for women constructed as Oriental and as Occidental. The study engages with recent theories about cross-dressing and transgression but argues that such theories are often unthinkingly Eurocentric in their valorization of transgression. Its analysis of the photographs and written elements in its primary sources suggests that cross-cultural dressing is a practice unevenly open to differently racialized social subjects. To this end,...","PeriodicalId":46172,"journal":{"name":"Interventions-International Journal of Postcolonial Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"500-520"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13698019900510791","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59765543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}