A Poetics of Modernity

Indian Theatre Theory, 1850 to the Present
Herausgeber: Dharwadker, Aparna Bhargava

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Produktbeschreibung

A scholarly edition that brings together theoretically significant writing on theatre by Indian theatre practitioners of the modern period, in English and in English translation from nine other languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 150mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780199487394
• ISBN-10: 0199487391
• Artikelnr.: 54469690

Autorenporträt

Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker is Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of 'Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India Since 1947' (2005), which won the Joe A. Callaway Prize in 2006. She has also contributed critical introductions to the three volumes of Girish Karnad's Collected Plays (2005-2017), and co-translated Mohan Rakesh's classic modernist play, 'Ashadh ka ek din', as 'One Day in the Season of Rain' (2015). Aparna's essays and articles have appeared in numerous journals and collections in north America, Britain, and India. She is married to the scholar, poet, and translator Vinay Dharwadker, and has two children-Aneesha, an architect, and Sachin, a filmmaker.