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Created in October 2003 by Professor Renée Dickason, Revue LISA/LISA e-journal is a bilingual (English/French) international peer-reviewed on-line publication. Revue LISA/LISA e-journal welcomes contributions, from France and abroad, in social and human sciences and pluri-, inter- or trans-disciplinary projects. 

Revue LISA/LISA e-journal, which celebrated its 50th number in 2020, publishes literary pieces by authors. It also publishes interviews with artists, and personalities from the worlds of politics and the sciences, along with thematic dossiers, the Virtual Loose Leaves, which include the Mélanges in homage to Pr. Dr. Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2018, and A Living Anthology on War Memories.

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vol.23-n°59 | 2025
War and Representation in India

Récits et représentations de guerres en Inde
Edited by Subarno Chattarji and Swatie
Kargil War Memorial, Bravehearts in our hearts and our history  © Aditee Padsalgikar, Kargil, August 2024
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Credits: © Aditee Padsalgikar, Kargil, August 2024

This special issue examines varied representations of India’s multiple wars. Whether they are international armed conflicts with Pakistan and China, imperial repercussions of European wars, domestic revolts and riots, India has a rich history of war representation. Arguing that war necessitates representation, in linguistic, cultural, artistic, visual or literary registers, the special issue presents a broad cross section of analyses. The focus of these articles ranges from the states of Punjab and West Bengal, to the North East and Kerala.

The collection of essays approaches war representations as a complex and relatively under-researched subject. War is seen within matrices of representation, circulation, and reception in local and global contexts, as well as from formal, historical, and ethnographic perspectives. Its scope encompasses a historical engagement with representations of the World Wars under colonial rule in four magazines in Malayalam, to photographs at the Central Sikh Museum in Punjab, from the Indian English novel and short stories from Manipur, to Bengali and Hindi cinema’s engagements with war’s socioeconomic and comedic aspects respectively, In doing so, this special issue addresses various concerns in the fields of post-colonialism, violence and trauma theory, area studies, gender and genre, death studies, and cinematic texts.

NB: The translation in French of all titles and abstracts have been provided by LISA editors-in chief who therefore take responsibility for it.

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