Poetics, Plays, and Performances The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre

Name: Poetics, Plays, and Performances The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre
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ISBN: 9780195674736

ISBN-10: 0195674731

ISBN-13: 9780195674736

Edition: 2006

Authors: Vasudha Dalmia

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This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, propelled by the urban interest in folk theatre and the popularity of Brecht in connection with this. Just as Brecht's theatre held out the promise of widening the scope of middle-class concerns, of questioning the politics of theatre, and of overcoming the bounds of the proscenium stage, Indian theatre turned to Hindi as the national language of production. What theatrical practice could this newlyrealized 'national' theatre invoke? Was there dramatic composition in modern Hindi, did it have any theatrical tradition? The book delves into the past, to the plays of Bharatendu Harischandra in 1870s Banaras, and…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/6/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 276
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.82" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English




'The national drama of the Hindus' : Harishchandra of Banaras and the 'classical' traditions in late-nineteenth-century India



Twentieth-century projections of the past : Jayshankar Prasad and the new subjectivity



Neither half nor whole : Mohan Rakesh and the modernist quest



Folk theatre and the search for an indigenous idiom : Brecht in India



Brecht in Hindi : the poetics of response



'To be more Brechtian is to be more Indian' : on the theatre of Habib Tanvir



Encountering the other, accosting the self



'I am a Hindu' : assertions and queries