Writing my @BSA2019 paper and stuck at this provocation: can we have a postcolonial investigation of Hamlet set in an occupied geography? How do the logics of the War on Terror challenge postcoloniality? #ShakeRace
I actually have a bit of a contradictory reading. While the Indian state is certainly critiqued, the spectacle of violence we see at the end locates it in Muslim bodies, reinforcing the kinds of pathologies of suicide bombers the west traffics in.
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I could go with that. Muslim subjects as both agents and objects of spectacular violence in that final scene. I guess a lot hinges on how Ghazala is treated earlier in the film. Does the suicide vest give her some kind of agency that Gertrude is not usually granted, or ...
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is it a culmination of fatalism/nihilism/death drive that seems part of her character? In which case she conforms to the stereotype of the "female suicide bomber". And reverts to type - a helpless Gertrude who loves her son but learns too late she has been deceived by Claudius.
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