Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama: community, kinship, and citizenship
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Beteilige Person: Batra, Kanika 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Routledge 2011
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies 17
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Umfang:XV, 178 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780415875912