War and Representation in India

In his seminal essay titled “War and Representation”, Frederic Jameson writes about the realist and post-realist phase of European aesthetics related to war. In a discussion raising the issue of which of these two styles – realist or post/anti-realist – imbue a greater force of authenticity to the event of war, he mentions a few aspects regarding how war is usually represented (in the Anglo-European model). He states that there are eight templates for war representation in literature that ei...