The Double Temporality of Lagaan
Cultural Struggle and Postcolonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2348898 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grant Farred (Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 93-114 |
| Publication date | 2004-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0193-7235 • E-ISSN: 1552-7638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0193723504264410 |
| OpenAlex | W2163455826 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Using postcolonial, psychoanalytic, sports, and cultural theory, this article explores the ways in which temporality constitutes a crucial element of the 2002 Bollywood movie, Lagaan. In critiquing this film about cricket, the article explicates how the political moment that is the Indian present functions as a problematic backdrop to Lagaan, which is set at the end of the 19th century. The film is read as text that inhabits, and articulates, a double temporality: Lagaan ('tax' in Hindi) is a movie that looks, simultaneously, to the colonized past and the postcolonial present. Cricket is posited as pivotalto the anticolonial project, and Lagaan demonstrates how the imagined 'Indian' nation (which includes all of the Asian subcontinent) conflicts with the Indian and Pakistani nations that emerged after the Partition of the Raj. This article shows how these many ideological pressures operated in 'Indian' society and affords gender a critical part in that analysis
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Hindi · Hindutva · Ideology · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations · Sociology · Temporality · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |