Poetics, Plays, and Performances: The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre (Oxford India Paperbacks) - Softcover

Dalmia, Vasudha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195695054 ISBN 13: 9780195695052

Verlag: OUP India, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

From the publisher: Poetics, Plays, and Performances addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies, and looking in particular at its appropriation of 'folk' theatre. Starting with the plays of Bharatendu Harishchandra in 1870s Banaras, the book moves forward to Jayshankar Prasad and Mohan Rakesh, landmark figures in the history of modern Indian drama. Dalmia then focuses on the intense urban interaction with folk theatre forms, their politicization in the 1940s and later again in the 1970s. Finally the book maps some of the routes taken by avant-garde women directors since the last decades of the twentieth century. Theatre students, critics, cultural historians, scholars of South Asian theatre, as well as general readers will find the book inspiring.

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Reseña del editor

This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies, and looking in particular at its appropriation of 'folk' theatre, as it sought to constitute itself anew after independence. Vasudha Dalmia delves into the past, to the plays of Bharatendu Harishchandra in 1870s Banaras, and to Jayshankar Prasad and Mohan Rakesh, landmark figures in the history of modern Indian drama. Dalmia then focuses on the intense urban interaction with folk theatre forms, their politicization in the 1940s and later again in the 1970s. With an overall focus on the politics of modern Indian theatre, particularly the action and reaction inspired by official policy-making in the capital of the nation as well as its international representation, the book will be of interest to theatre students, critics, cultural historians, scholars of South Asian theatre, as well as general readers.

Biografía del autor

Vasudha Dalmia is Professor of Hindi and Modern South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

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• Verlag: OUP India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0195695054
• ISBN 13: 9780195695052
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 380