Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India (Law in Context)

Reading age: 5 years and up
Print length: 240 pages
Language: English
Dimensions: 15.24 x 2.39 x 22.86 cm

Name: Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India (Law in Context)
SKU: 9781316512814
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SKU: 9781316512814

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Explore the intricate relationship between secular law, cinema, and collective memory in ‘Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India’. This compelling book from The Bookish Owl delves into the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, India’s most litigated and mediatized event of anti-Muslim violence. By analyzing judgments and films through a unique interpretive lens, the author reveals how law and cinema shape our collective memory. Discover how the rationality of secular law is presented as a solution to religious violence, yet paradoxically condemns and normalizes violence against Muslims while exonerating the legal system. ‘Ways of Remembering’ uncovers the aesthetic dimensions of law, exposing how it organizes violence and perpetuates a cycle of discrimination. A must-read for understanding contemporary India, law, and memory.

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