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Author:
Batra, Kanika, 1972-
Title:
Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama : community, kinship, and citizenship / Kanika Batra.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
xv, 178 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Feminist drama--History and criticism.
Feminism and theater.
Feminist theater--Jamaica.
Feminist theater--India.
Feminist theater--Nigeria.
Feminism in literature.
Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Series:
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 17.
ISBN:
0415875919
9780415875912
OCLC:
(OCoLC)432998121
LCCN:
2010018517
Locations:
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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