Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama :
General Material Designation
[Book]
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community, kinship, and citizenship /
First Statement of Responsibility
Kanika Batra
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xv, 178 p. :
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ill. ;
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24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ;
Volume Designation
17
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- Jamaica. Making citizens: community, kinship, and the national imaginary in Dennis Scott's An echo in the bone (1974) and Dog (1978) -- We shouldn't shame to talk: postcolonial sexual citizenship in Sistren Theatre Collective's Bellywoman Banagarang and QPH -- India. A people's theatre from Delhi in alliance with the women's movement -- Queering the subaltern: postcolonial performativity in Mahesh Dattani's Seven steps around the fire and Mahasweta Devi and Usha Ganguli's Rudali -- Nigeria. Resistant citizenship: reading feminist praxis and democratic renewal in Nigeria through Femi Osofisan's Morountodun -- Daughters who know the languages of power: community, sexuality, and postcolonial development in Tess Onwueme's Tell it to women -- Epilogue