Kathryn Hansen

Stages of Life

Indian Theatre Autobiographies

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1
Chapter 1. Pioneers to Professionals: A Retrospective of the Parsi Theatre
Chapter 2. Theatrical Memoirs and the Archives of Autobiography
Part 2
Chapter 3. Narayan Prasad Betab, ‘The Deeds of Betab’
Chapter 4. Radheshyam Kathavachak, ‘My Theatre Days’
Chapter 5. Jayshankar Sundari, ‘Some Blossoms, Some Tears’
Chapter 6. Fida Husain, ‘Fifty Years in the Parsi Theatre’
Part 3
Chapter 7. Self and Subjectivity in Autobiographical Criticism
Chapter 8. Voices and Silences: Reading the Texts
Appendix 1. Historical Personages and Institutions
Appendix 2. List of Plays and Films
Glossary Hindi and Urdu Terms
Bibliography