Partition, Violence and Humanism in Tabish Khair’s Filming
Partition, Violence and Humanism in Tabish Khair’s Filming
Author(s): Om Prakash DwivediSubject(s): History, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Education, Cultural history, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Bibliography, General Reference Works, Geography, Regional studies, Historical Geography, Studies of Literature, History of ideas, Oral history, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay, Book-Review, Drama
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: Tabish Khair; novel; partition; postcolonial humanism; film industry; violence; Indian society;
Summary/Abstract: Tabish Khair’s novel, Filming (2007), highlights many deeply vexed issues that are central to any discussion on colonial/postcolonial humanism. The novel presents the film industry of Hindustan and the lives of people associated with this charismatic industry. It also deals with the maltreatment of women and the manner in which their voices are muffled by the male chauvinistic society, thus making them the subaltern that cannot speak, or if they do manage to speak, they are brusquely silenced, because it questions the authority of those in power, and concomitantly tries to reroute the established power relations, and hence these voices and demands are to be viewed as something that deserves immediate disapproval and censorship.
Journal: International Journal on Humanistic Ideology
- Issue Year: IX/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 75-89
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
