Kathryn Hansen

Gebundenes Buch

Stages of Life

Indian Theatre Autobiographies

Beschreibung

Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with substantive chapters on the Parsi theatre and strategies for reading autobiography in the Indian context.

Autor

Kathryn Hansen is a leading scholar of South Asian theatre history, especially the Hindi and Urdu vernacular traditions of North India.  She has authored ‘Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India’, translated ‘The Parsi Theatre: Its Origins and Development’, and co-edited ‘A Wilderness of Possibilities: Urdu Studies in Transnational Perspective’. She holds the position of Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780857286604
• ISBN-10: 0857286609
• Artikelnr.: 34228953