The Afterlives of Images: The Contested Legacies of Gandhi in Art and Popular Culture.
This paper offers a conceptual reading of the subject of memory and memorialization in the context of the nation though an analysis of the images of Mohandas K. Gandhi circulating in popular culture and contemporary art. Continually reinvoked in official imagery, currency and public memorials, Gandh...
| Published in: | South Asian Studies Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 111 - 130 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2013
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