Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama :
Batra, Kanika, 1972-
Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama : community, kinship, and citizenship / Kanika Batra. - New York : Routledge, 2011. - xv, 178 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 17 .
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.
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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.
Stage presentations
792.082 / BAT
Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama : community, kinship, and citizenship / Kanika Batra. - New York : Routledge, 2011. - xv, 178 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 17 .
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.
9780415875912 0415875919 9780203839850 0203839854
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.
Stage presentations
792.082 / BAT
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