Vasudha Dalmia

Poetics, Plays and Performances

The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre

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Produktbeschreibung

Poetics, Plays, and Performances addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies and looking, in particular, at its appropriation of 'folk' theatre, as it sought to constitute itself anew after Independence. The book focuses on the politics of modern Indian theatre, particularly the action and reaction inspired by official policy-making in the capital of the nation as well as its international representation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780195695052
• ISBN-10: 0195695054
• Artikelnr.: 23605340

Autorenporträt

Vasudha Dalmia is Professor of Hindi and Modern South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements o List of Photographs o Introduction o IN SEARCH OF A
NATIONAL THEATRE 'The National Drama of the Hindus': Harishchandra of
Banaras and the 'Classical' Traditions in Late-Nineteenth-Century India.
Twentieth-Century Projections of the Past: Jayshankar Prasad and the New
Subjectivity. Neither Half nor Whole: Mohan Rakesh and the Modernist Quest
o THE NATION AND ITS 'FOLK'. Folk Theatre and the Search for an Indigeneous
Idiom: Brecht in India. Brecht in Hindi: The Poetics of Response Classical
Sanskrit Poetics and Drama. 'To Be More Brechtian is to be More Indian': On
the Theatre of Habib Tanvir o WHAT IS INDIAN? Encountering the Other,
Accosting the Self. 'I am a Hindu': Assertions and Queries o Index