6. Tamas and the Limits of Representation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: National Cinema’s Hermeneutic of Mourning 1
5. Part I. A Resonant Silence
6. 1. Cinema’s Project of Nationhood 47
7. 2. Runes of Laceration 88
8. 3. Bengali Cinema: A Spectral Subnationality 125
9. Part II. The Return of the Repressed
10. 4. Dispersed Nodes of Articulation 169
11. 5. Ghatak, Melodrama, and the Restitution of Experience 200
12. 6. Tamas and the Limits of Representation 230
13. 7. Mourning (Un)limited 259
14. Coda: The Critical Enchantment of Mourning 299
15. Notes 305
16. Bibliography 343
17. Index 363