Theatre, Margins and Politics

Theatre, Margins and Politics

An Introduction

Ray, Arnab; Chakraborty, Sibendu

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05/2024

276

Mole

9781032133362

Pré-lançamento - envio 15 a 20 dias após a sua edição

Descrição não disponível.
Notes on the Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I

India

1 When the Subaltern Speaks: Reading Three Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

SANJUKTA DASGUPTA

2 "Where There Is Power, There Is Resistance": Negotiating Resistance and Representation in Dinabandhu Mitra's The Indigo Planting Mirror

INDRAJIT MUKHERJEE

3 Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilisation Through Denotified and Nomadic Tribe's Community Theatre

ANITA SINGH

4 Embodying Dalit Resistance: Listen Shefali! and The Scapegoats

APARNA SINGH

5 Touching at Tangents: Narrativity, Representation, and Agency in Saoli Mitra's Five Lords Yet None A Protector

AVERI SAHA

6 Performing Resistance: Revisiting the Myth of Shoorpanakha and Shakuni in Poile Sengupta's Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni

MONAMI NAG

7 The Mimesis of Desire in Mahesh Dattani's Plays: Sexual Politics in Performance

PARTHA SARATHI GUPTA

II

North America and the Caribbean

8 Cultural Resurgence and the Trickster in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters

B. POOVILANGOTHAI

9 A Search for One's Own Place: Forms of Spatiality and Marginalisation in A Raisin in the Sun and Other Dalit Narratives

RAJA BASU

10 Black Skin, Female Body: Oppression, Pathology of Suicide, and Subversive Recovery of Self in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf

ARNAB RAY

11 The Body Is a (New Materialist) State Apparatus: Agency and the Industrial Body in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly

SUBASHISH BHATTACHARJEE

12 Fall and Redemption: Colonial Marginalisation and Postcolonial Resistance in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain

ARNAB RAY

III

Africa

13 "I am One of Your Children": Discordance and Transformation in Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa!

SRIRUPA MAHALANABIS

14 The Idea of the Margin and Its Vigorous Problematisation: A Discursive Study of Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests

SARANYA MUKHERJEE

15 Power Through Performance: A Study of Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel

SHARADA CHIGURUPATI

16 Retelling Myth/Reconfiguring Subalternity: Gender Politics and History in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa

SUDIPTA CHAKRABORTY

IV

Australia

17 The Performative Politics of Reconciliation in David Milroy's Waltzing the Wilarra

MICHAEL R. GRIFFITHS

18 Appropriating the Margin: Theatre and Aboriginality in Jack Davis's the First Born Trilogy

SIBENDU CHAKRABORTY

Index
Mahesh Dattani;Young Man;INDIAN EDITION;Bengali Theatre;Devious;Violated;Rez Sisters;Contemporary Society;Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade;Aboriginal Literature;Shange's Play;Dalit Theatre;Tagore's Plays;MULK Raj ANAND;Tamil Nadu;Dalit Woman;Native Welfare;Indigo Planters;Restaging History;Red Oleanders;Night Hawk;Criminal Tribes Act;Hyderabad Central University;Colored Girls;Minor Literature;Oriental Male