Kanika Batra

Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama

Community, Kinship, and Citizenship

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Produktbeschreibung

In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries. Postcolonial drama, Batra contends, furthers the struggle for gender justice in both these movements by contesting the idea of the heterosexual, middle class, wage-earning male as the model citizen and by suggesting alternative conceptions of citizenship premised on working-class sexual identities. Further, Batra considers the possibility of Indian, Jamaican, and Nigerian drama generating a discourse on a rights-bearing conception of citizenship that derives from representations of non-biological, non-generational forms of kinship. Her study is one of the first to examine the ways in which postcolonial dramatists are creating the possibility of a dialogue between cultural activism, women's movements, and an emerging discourse on queer sexualities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9780415818179
• ISBN-10: 0415818176
• Artikelnr.: 36540465

Autorenporträt

Kanika Batra is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Texas Tech University

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Permissions Acknowledgments Introduction: Feminist
Visions and Queer Futures Part 1: Jamaica 1: Making Citizens: Community,
Kinship, and the National Imaginary in Dennis Scott's Echo in the Bone
(1974) and Dog (1978) 2: "We shouldn't shame to talk": Postcolonial Sexual
Citizenship in Sistren Theatre Collective's Bellywoman Banagarang and QPH
Part 2: India 3: A People's Theatre from Delhi in Alliance with the Women's
Movement 4: Queering the Subaltern: Postcolonial Performativity in Mahesh
Dattani's Seven Steps Around the Fire and Mahasweta Devi and Usha Ganguli's
Rudali Part 3: Nigeria 5: Resistant Citizenship: Reading Feminist Praxis
and Democratic Renewal in Nigeria through Femi Osofisan's Morountodun 6:
"Daughters who know the languages of power:" Community, Sexuality, and
Postcolonial Development in Tess Onwueme's Tell it to Women Epilogue Notes
Bibliography Index