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Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama : community, kinship, and citizenship / Kanika Batra.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 17Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: xv, 178 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415875912
  • 0415875919
  • 9780203839850
  • 0203839854
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.082 BAT
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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.
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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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