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Theatres of independence :

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158729642X

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9781587296420

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0877459614

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9780877459613

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b759979

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Theatres of independence :

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[Book]

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drama, theory, and urban performance in India since 1947 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker.

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Iowa City :

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University of Iowa Press,

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©2005.

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1 online resource (xix, 478 pages) :

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illustrations

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Studies in theatre history and culture

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. Postcolonial Frames and the Subject of modern Indian theatre -- Part 1. The field of Indian theatre after independence. 2. The Formation of a New National Canon -- 3. Authorship Textuality and Multilingualism -- 4. Production and reception: Directors, audiences, and the mass media -- 5. Orientalism, cultural nationalism, and the erasure of the present -- Part 2. Genres in context: theory, play, and performance. 6. Myth ambivalence, and evil -- 7. The ironic history of nation -- 8. Realism and the edifice of home -- 9. Alternative stages: antirealism, gender, and contemporary folk theatre -- 10. Intertexts and countertexts -- Appendixes. 1. The Program of the Nehru Shatabdi Samaroh -- 2. Major Indian playwrights and plays -- 3. Major Indian Theatre Directors -- 4. Key productions of some major post-independence plays -- 5. Productions, Mainly in Hindi, by three contemporary directors -- 6. Productions by ten contemporary directors and theatre groups -- 7. Modern urban transmissions of the Mahabharati: the principal genres -- 8. The Euro-American intertexts of post-independence drama and theatre -- 9. Prose narratives on the stage -- 10. Brecht intertexts in post-independence Indian theatre.

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Theatres of Independence is the first comprehensive study of drama, theatre, and urban performance in post-independence India. Combining theatre history with theoretical analysis and literary interpretation, Aparna Dharwadker examines the unprecedented conditions for writing and performance that the experience of new nationhood created in a dozen major Indian languages and offers detailed discussions of the major plays, playwrights, directors, dramatic genres, and theories of drama that have made the contemporary Indian stage a vital part of postcolonial and world theatre. The first part of Dharwadker's study deals with the new dramatic canon that emerged after 1950 and the variety of ways in which plays are written, produced, translated, circulated, and received in a multilingual national culture. The second part traces the formation of significant postcolonial dramatic genres from their origins in myth, history, folk narrative, sociopolitical experience, and the intertextual connections between Indian, European, British, and American drama. The book's ten appendixes collect extensive documentation of the work of leading playwrights and directors, as well as a record of the contemporary multilingual performance histories of major Indian, Western, and non-Western plays from all periods and genres. Treating drama and theatre as strategically interrelated activities, the study makes post-independence Indian theatre visible as a multifaceted critical subject to scholars of modern drama, comparative theatre, theatre history, and the new national and postcolonial literatures.

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22573/ctt20m5x5x

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Theatres of independence.

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9780877459613

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Theaters of independence

Indic drama-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Theater and society-- India-- History-- 20th century.

Theater-- India-- History-- 20th century.

Indic drama.

PERFORMING ARTS-- Television-- History & Criticism.

PERFORMING ARTS-- Theater-- History & Criticism.

Theater and society.

Theater.

India.

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Dharwadker, Aparna Bhargava,1955-

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20201204194634.0

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