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T1 India’s Indigenous Lear: Iyobinte Pusthakam
T2 Un Rey Lear indio: Iyobinte Pusthakam
A1 Buckley, Thea
K1 India
K1 Kerala
K1 Rey Lear
K1 cine
K1 Amal Neerad
AB In his 2014 Malayalam-language film Iyobinte Pusthakam (The Book of Job), Amal Neeradcombines this Biblical fable with The Brothers Karamazov and King Lear to illustrate gen-erational tensions in a divided South Indian family on a colonial tea plantation. PatriarchJob perpetuates colonial evils, including anti-tribal pogroms and sandalwood smuggling.Here, Job disinherits his youngest son Aloshy (a conflated Edmund+Cordelia figure) upondiscovering his Communist sympathies. Through such Shakespearean dilemmas, Neerad’sfilm raises ethical questions regarding caste, race, politics and environment. Ultimately,familial and societal transgressions reflect pivotal times of national division and transforma-tion, during the era of India’s colonisation, Partition and Independence.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2021
FD 2021
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 23-may-2024