Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama : community, kinship, and citizenship / Kanika Batra.
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Batra, Kanika, 1972- (författare)
- ISBN 9780415818179
- Publicerad: New York : Routledge, 2011
- Copyright: ©2011
- Engelska xv, 178 pages
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Serie: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 17
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http://bvbr.bib-bvb.... (Table of contents)
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http://catdir.loc.go... (Contributor biographical information)
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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.
- In this timely study, Batra examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries. Postcolonial drama, Batra contends, furthers the struggle for gender justice in both these movements by contesting the idea of the heterosexual, middle class, wage-earning male as the model citizen and by suggesting alternative conceptions of citizenship premised on working-class sexual identities. Further, Batra considers the possibility of Indian, Jamaican, and Nigerian drama generating a discourse on a rights-bearing conception of citizenship that derives from representations of non-biological, non-generational forms of kinship. Her study is one of the first to examine the ways in which postcolonial dramatists are creating the possibility of a dialogue between cultural activism, women's movements, and an emerging discourse on queer sexualities.
Ämnesord
- Postkolonialism i litteraturen (sao)
- Feminism och teater (sao)
- Feminism och litteratur (sao)
- Postkolonialism (sao)
- Dramatik (sao)
- Queerteori (sao)
- Feminism and theater. (LCSH)
- Feminism in literature. (LCSH)
- Women in literature. (LCSH)
- Sex role in literature. (LCSH)
- Postcolonialism in literature. (LCSH)
- Feminist drama -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Feminist theater -- Jamaica. (LCSH)
- Feminist theater -- India. (LCSH)
- Feminist theater -- Nigeria. (LCSH)
- Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries. (LCSH)
- Feminism and theater. (fast)
- Feminism in literature. (fast)
- Feminist drama. (fast)
- Feminist theater. (fast)
- Postcolonialism. (fast)
- Postcolonialism in literature. (fast)
- Sex role in literature. (fast)
- Women in literature. (fast)
- Drama (lcsh)
- Feminism and literature (lcsh)
- Postcolonialism (lcsh)
- Postcolonialism in literature (lcsh)
- Queer theory (lcsh)
- Feminism and theater (lcsh)
- Indien (sao)
- Jamaica (sao)
- Nigeria (sao)
- Commonwealth countries. (fast)
- India. (fast)
- Jamaica. (fast)
- Nigeria. (fast)
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc. (fast)
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- PN1590.W64 (LCC)
- 792.082 (DDC)
- Ika (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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