Art and resistance : studies in modern Indian theatres /
"This volume begins with the assumption that 'Hindu' should not be conflated with 'Indian' (as in the case of Orientalist criticism of Indian theatre) and that modern Indian theatre need not have its starting point in classical Sanskrit drama (as many Indologists would asser...
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Bruxelles ; New York :
P.I.E. Peter Lang,
[2019]
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| Series: | Dramaturgies ;
no. 40. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : reconfiguring nationhood through performance / Dorothy M. Figueira
- Quest for "Indian roots" : nativism and modernism in postcolonial Indian theatre / E.V. Ramakrishnan
- Indian peoples' theatre association : the political in culture / Suchetana Banerjee
- The urge to change the world : an introduction to Dalit and Ambedkarite theatre / Maya Pandit
- Hard truths and real facts : theatre for development in India / Geoffrey V. Davis
- Notes towards an understanding of an indigenous performative form in Bengal : a Manasamangalpada at Joramath / Subha Chakravorty Dasgupta
- Versions of history : Girish Karnad's play The dream of Tipu Sultan / Geoffrey V. Davis
- Girish Karnad and the problem of rewriting myth / Dorothy Figueira
- Badal Sircar's journey towards the third theatre / Jasbir Jain
- Habib Tanvir : in search of a new popular / Suchetana Banerjee
- Epic theatre, folk form and liminal space in Satish Alekar's Mahanirvan (the dread departure) / Aparna V. Zambare
- The politics of emergent theatrical tradition in Manipur / Sumitra Thoidingjam
- "Just 'the king's' postman"? Rabindranath Tagore's plays in transcultural perspective / Martina Ghosh-Shellhorn
- A brief overview of a vibrant theatre from India : Marathi Theatre; 1843 to 2010 / Makarand Sathe
- Rituals of postcoloniality and theatres of modernity : a study of incommensurabilities / S. Satish Kumar.