Karan Singh

Folk Theatres of North India

Contestation, Amalgamation and Transference

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines folk theatres of North India and discusses their genesis, history and independent trajectory; folk theatre and Sanskrit dramaturgy; cinematic legacy; and theatrical space as performance besides investigating causes, inter-relations within socio-cultural factors, and the performance principles underlying them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781032176383
• ISBN-10: 1032176385
• Artikelnr.: 62571601

Autorenporträt

Karan Singh is Associate Professor of English at Government College for Women, Mahendragarh, Haryana, India. He has been Affiliated Fellow at International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands and Associate at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He has completed two major research projects of University Grants Commission on Dalit Literature and Folk Theatres and has published three books - Iris Murdoch: Melodrama and Metaphysics (2008), Dalitism and Feminism: Locating Women in Dalit Literature (2011), and Unknown Voices (2011). He is also Editor of OASIS, a literary annual journal and President of the Society for Promotion of English Language and Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Acknowledgements. Note on Transliteration. Introduction - Folk
Theatre: Genesis, History and Causes 1. Folk Theatre and Sanskrit
Dramaturgy 2. Folk Theatre and Western Theatre 3. Folk Theatre: The
Cinematic Legacy 4. Folk Theatrical Space as Performance. Conclusion.
Glossary. Works Cited. Index