عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
IR
60T
انگلیسی
IR
Stage 'left' and the state 'right': Globalization and performance in modern Bengali theater (1943--2003)
[Thesis]
;supervisor Case, Sue-Ellen
University of California, Los Angeles: United States -- California
: 2007
204 pages
Ph.D.
, University of California, Los Angeles: United States -- California
This dissertation maps India's transformation from post-coloniality into today's world of multi-national finance capital through an examination of certain trends in modern Bengali theater between 1943 and 2003. By modern Bengali theater I specifically mean the tradition initiated by the Indian Peoples' Theater Association under the aegis of the undivided Communist party of India, a tradition still in practice on proscenium stage in Calcutta. Taking my clues from theories of performance, modernizations, transnationalism, globalization, power, and the historiography of the World-system school I arrive at the conclusion that the post-colonial is rather a phase in the expansion and development of historical capitalism, that the colonial first bears the traces of global capital in its search for newer territories, and thus marks the inauguration of 'modern' power. I argue that the transformation is the effect of the shifts in the modus operandi of historical capitalism undergoing certain epochal changes. In the present Indian context, these changes can be identified as: (1) the opening out of the Indian economy during the 1990s; (2) the advent of information floating freely across erstwhile national borders; and (3) the emergence of a spectacularly transnational cultural sphere marked by what I call 'geo-performentality'. Taking this period as my point of departure, I look back at the formation and genealogy of modern power through its colonial and post-colonial ramifications, using performance as a paradigm in itself that playfully grapples and colludes with them.
Theater
India
Globalization
Performance
Modern
Bengali
Theater
Gangopadhyay, Ayan Kumar
ایران
National Center for Globalization Studies
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