Theatre, Margins and Politics
An Introduction
Herausgeber: Chakraborty, Sibendu; Ray, Arnab
Theatre, Margins and Politics
An Introduction
Herausgeber: Chakraborty, Sibendu; Ray, Arnab
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This book interrogates the relationship of theatre and the dialectics of centre and the margins. It looks into the exciting world of performance to examine how theatre as an art form is perfectly placed to both perform and critique complex relations of power, politics and culture.
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This book interrogates the relationship of theatre and the dialectics of centre and the margins. It looks into the exciting world of performance to examine how theatre as an art form is perfectly placed to both perform and critique complex relations of power, politics and culture.
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- Verlag: Routledge India
- Seitenzahl: 278
- Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
- Gewicht: 427g
- ISBN-13: 9781032133362
- ISBN-10: 1032133368
- Artikelnr.: 70340707
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Books on Demand GmbH
- In de Tarpen 42
- 22848 Norderstedt
- info@bod.de
- 040 53433511
- Verlag: Routledge India
- Seitenzahl: 278
- Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
- Gewicht: 427g
- ISBN-13: 9781032133362
- ISBN-10: 1032133368
- Artikelnr.: 70340707
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Books on Demand GmbH
- In de Tarpen 42
- 22848 Norderstedt
- info@bod.de
- 040 53433511
Arnab Ray is Associate Professor of English at Rabin Mukherjee College, affiliated with the University of Calcutta, India. Sibendu Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of English at Charuchandra College, affiliated with the University of Calcutta, India.
Notes on the Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I
India
1 When the Subaltern Speaks: Reading Three Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
SANJUKTA DASGUPTA
2 "Where There Is Power, There Is Resistance": Negotiating Resistance and
Representation in Dinabandhu Mitra's The Indigo Planting Mirror
INDRAJIT MUKHERJEE
3 Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilisation Through Denotified and Nomadic
Tribe's Community Theatre
ANITA SINGH
4 Embodying Dalit Resistance: Listen Shefali! and The Scapegoats
APARNA SINGH
5 Touching at Tangents: Narrativity, Representation, and Agency in Saoli
Mitra's Five Lords Yet None A Protector
AVERI SAHA
6 Performing Resistance: Revisiting the Myth of Shoorpanakha and Shakuni in
Poile Sengupta's Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni
MONAMI NAG
7 The Mimesis of Desire in Mahesh Dattani's Plays: Sexual Politics in
Performance
PARTHA SARATHI GUPTA
II
North America and the Caribbean
8 Cultural Resurgence and the Trickster in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters
B. POOVILANGOTHAI
9 A Search for One's Own Place: Forms of Spatiality and Marginalisation in
A Raisin in the Sun and Other Dalit Narratives
RAJA BASU
10 Black Skin, Female Body: Oppression, Pathology of Suicide, and
Subversive Recovery of Self in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have
Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf
ARNAB RAY
11 The Body Is a (New Materialist) State Apparatus: Agency and the
Industrial Body in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly
SUBASHISH BHATTACHARJEE
12 Fall and Redemption: Colonial Marginalisation and Postcolonial
Resistance in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
ARNAB RAY
III
Africa
13 "I am One of Your Children": Discordance and Transformation in Athol
Fugard's My Children! My Africa!
SRIRUPA MAHALANABIS
14 The Idea of the Margin and Its Vigorous Problematisation: A Discursive
Study of Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests
SARANYA MUKHERJEE
15 Power Through Performance: A Study of Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the
Jewel
SHARADA CHIGURUPATI
16 Retelling Myth/Reconfiguring Subalternity: Gender Politics and History
in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa
SUDIPTA CHAKRABORTY
IV
Australia
17 The Performative Politics of Reconciliation in David Milroy's Waltzing
the Wilarra
MICHAEL R. GRIFFITHS
18 Appropriating the Margin: Theatre and Aboriginality in Jack Davis's the
First Born Trilogy
SIBENDU CHAKRABORTY
Index
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I
India
1 When the Subaltern Speaks: Reading Three Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
SANJUKTA DASGUPTA
2 "Where There Is Power, There Is Resistance": Negotiating Resistance and
Representation in Dinabandhu Mitra's The Indigo Planting Mirror
INDRAJIT MUKHERJEE
3 Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilisation Through Denotified and Nomadic
Tribe's Community Theatre
ANITA SINGH
4 Embodying Dalit Resistance: Listen Shefali! and The Scapegoats
APARNA SINGH
5 Touching at Tangents: Narrativity, Representation, and Agency in Saoli
Mitra's Five Lords Yet None A Protector
AVERI SAHA
6 Performing Resistance: Revisiting the Myth of Shoorpanakha and Shakuni in
Poile Sengupta's Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni
MONAMI NAG
7 The Mimesis of Desire in Mahesh Dattani's Plays: Sexual Politics in
Performance
PARTHA SARATHI GUPTA
II
North America and the Caribbean
8 Cultural Resurgence and the Trickster in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters
B. POOVILANGOTHAI
9 A Search for One's Own Place: Forms of Spatiality and Marginalisation in
A Raisin in the Sun and Other Dalit Narratives
RAJA BASU
10 Black Skin, Female Body: Oppression, Pathology of Suicide, and
Subversive Recovery of Self in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have
Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf
ARNAB RAY
11 The Body Is a (New Materialist) State Apparatus: Agency and the
Industrial Body in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly
SUBASHISH BHATTACHARJEE
12 Fall and Redemption: Colonial Marginalisation and Postcolonial
Resistance in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
ARNAB RAY
III
Africa
13 "I am One of Your Children": Discordance and Transformation in Athol
Fugard's My Children! My Africa!
SRIRUPA MAHALANABIS
14 The Idea of the Margin and Its Vigorous Problematisation: A Discursive
Study of Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests
SARANYA MUKHERJEE
15 Power Through Performance: A Study of Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the
Jewel
SHARADA CHIGURUPATI
16 Retelling Myth/Reconfiguring Subalternity: Gender Politics and History
in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa
SUDIPTA CHAKRABORTY
IV
Australia
17 The Performative Politics of Reconciliation in David Milroy's Waltzing
the Wilarra
MICHAEL R. GRIFFITHS
18 Appropriating the Margin: Theatre and Aboriginality in Jack Davis's the
First Born Trilogy
SIBENDU CHAKRABORTY
Index
Notes on the Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I
India
1 When the Subaltern Speaks: Reading Three Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
SANJUKTA DASGUPTA
2 "Where There Is Power, There Is Resistance": Negotiating Resistance and
Representation in Dinabandhu Mitra's The Indigo Planting Mirror
INDRAJIT MUKHERJEE
3 Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilisation Through Denotified and Nomadic
Tribe's Community Theatre
ANITA SINGH
4 Embodying Dalit Resistance: Listen Shefali! and The Scapegoats
APARNA SINGH
5 Touching at Tangents: Narrativity, Representation, and Agency in Saoli
Mitra's Five Lords Yet None A Protector
AVERI SAHA
6 Performing Resistance: Revisiting the Myth of Shoorpanakha and Shakuni in
Poile Sengupta's Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni
MONAMI NAG
7 The Mimesis of Desire in Mahesh Dattani's Plays: Sexual Politics in
Performance
PARTHA SARATHI GUPTA
II
North America and the Caribbean
8 Cultural Resurgence and the Trickster in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters
B. POOVILANGOTHAI
9 A Search for One's Own Place: Forms of Spatiality and Marginalisation in
A Raisin in the Sun and Other Dalit Narratives
RAJA BASU
10 Black Skin, Female Body: Oppression, Pathology of Suicide, and
Subversive Recovery of Self in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have
Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf
ARNAB RAY
11 The Body Is a (New Materialist) State Apparatus: Agency and the
Industrial Body in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly
SUBASHISH BHATTACHARJEE
12 Fall and Redemption: Colonial Marginalisation and Postcolonial
Resistance in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
ARNAB RAY
III
Africa
13 "I am One of Your Children": Discordance and Transformation in Athol
Fugard's My Children! My Africa!
SRIRUPA MAHALANABIS
14 The Idea of the Margin and Its Vigorous Problematisation: A Discursive
Study of Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests
SARANYA MUKHERJEE
15 Power Through Performance: A Study of Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the
Jewel
SHARADA CHIGURUPATI
16 Retelling Myth/Reconfiguring Subalternity: Gender Politics and History
in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa
SUDIPTA CHAKRABORTY
IV
Australia
17 The Performative Politics of Reconciliation in David Milroy's Waltzing
the Wilarra
MICHAEL R. GRIFFITHS
18 Appropriating the Margin: Theatre and Aboriginality in Jack Davis's the
First Born Trilogy
SIBENDU CHAKRABORTY
Index
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I
India
1 When the Subaltern Speaks: Reading Three Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
SANJUKTA DASGUPTA
2 "Where There Is Power, There Is Resistance": Negotiating Resistance and
Representation in Dinabandhu Mitra's The Indigo Planting Mirror
INDRAJIT MUKHERJEE
3 Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilisation Through Denotified and Nomadic
Tribe's Community Theatre
ANITA SINGH
4 Embodying Dalit Resistance: Listen Shefali! and The Scapegoats
APARNA SINGH
5 Touching at Tangents: Narrativity, Representation, and Agency in Saoli
Mitra's Five Lords Yet None A Protector
AVERI SAHA
6 Performing Resistance: Revisiting the Myth of Shoorpanakha and Shakuni in
Poile Sengupta's Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni
MONAMI NAG
7 The Mimesis of Desire in Mahesh Dattani's Plays: Sexual Politics in
Performance
PARTHA SARATHI GUPTA
II
North America and the Caribbean
8 Cultural Resurgence and the Trickster in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters
B. POOVILANGOTHAI
9 A Search for One's Own Place: Forms of Spatiality and Marginalisation in
A Raisin in the Sun and Other Dalit Narratives
RAJA BASU
10 Black Skin, Female Body: Oppression, Pathology of Suicide, and
Subversive Recovery of Self in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have
Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf
ARNAB RAY
11 The Body Is a (New Materialist) State Apparatus: Agency and the
Industrial Body in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly
SUBASHISH BHATTACHARJEE
12 Fall and Redemption: Colonial Marginalisation and Postcolonial
Resistance in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
ARNAB RAY
III
Africa
13 "I am One of Your Children": Discordance and Transformation in Athol
Fugard's My Children! My Africa!
SRIRUPA MAHALANABIS
14 The Idea of the Margin and Its Vigorous Problematisation: A Discursive
Study of Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests
SARANYA MUKHERJEE
15 Power Through Performance: A Study of Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the
Jewel
SHARADA CHIGURUPATI
16 Retelling Myth/Reconfiguring Subalternity: Gender Politics and History
in Ama Ata Aidoo's Anowa
SUDIPTA CHAKRABORTY
IV
Australia
17 The Performative Politics of Reconciliation in David Milroy's Waltzing
the Wilarra
MICHAEL R. GRIFFITHS
18 Appropriating the Margin: Theatre and Aboriginality in Jack Davis's the
First Born Trilogy
SIBENDU CHAKRABORTY
Index