Nandi Bhatia

Performing Women

Theatre, Politics, and Dissent in North India

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines diverse modes of dramatic representation and performance--myth, folklore, ritual, and history, including everyday conversation--used by women to intervene in and challenge the agenda of social movements, which conceptualized women's emancipation but imagined their role as being primarily at the core of family life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780198066934
• ISBN-10: 0198066937
• Artikelnr.: 32730233

Autorenporträt

Nandi Bhatia is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1.: Constructing the Theatre Actress
* 2.3.: Argumentative Women in Domestic Spaces: The Plays of Rasheed
Jahan and Ismat ChughtaiIndependence, Partition, and New Theatrical
Imaginings
* 4.: From Social Reform to Social Protest: Gender and Caste Politics
in Kusum Kumar's 'Listen Shefali' (Suno Shefali)
* 5.: The Courtesan as 'Virangana' in Contemporary Historical Drama:
Tripurari Sharma's San Sattavan ka Qissa: Azizum Nisa
* Epilogue: 'A Window into an Elegant and Colourful, but Almost
Forgotten World'
* Index