Cultural Identity In Hindi Plays

Author : Diana Dimitrova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019286906X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays written by Diana Dimitrova and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It aims at studying questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the 19th- and 20th- centuries and the interplay of poetics and politics, as revealed in the work of several influential playwrights. The book explores questions related to the ways in which seven representative playwrights imagine India and its identity and the ways, in which this concept is revealed in the "narratives of the nation", its postcolonial contentions and the politics of identity, as revealed in the production of various cultural discourses. The chapters explore various aspects of the ongoing process of constructing and narrating culture, gender, the nation and identity. There has been no monograph on the questions of cultural identity in Hindi drama. This is a pioneering project and a desideratum in the field of Hindi literature, South Asian Studies, and broadly, in the study of theatre of India and of South Asian cultures and literatures.

Author : Diana Dimitrova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192695703
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Identity in Hindy Plays written by Diana Dimitrova and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It studies questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the 19th- and 20th- centuries and the interplay of poetics and politics, as revealed in the work of several influential playwrights.

Author : Diana Dimitrova
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319410156
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Indianness written by Diana Dimitrova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is revealed in the narratives of the nation and the production of various cultural discourses. The collection of essays examines questions related to the interpretation of the Indian past and present, the meanings of ancient and venerated cultural symbols in ancient times and modern, while discussing the ideological implications of the interpretation of identity and “Indianness” and how they reflect and influence the power-structures of contemporary societies in South Asia. Thus, the book studies the various aspects of the on-going process of constructing, imagining, re-imagining, and narrating “Indianness”, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of India.

Author : Diana Dimitrova
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137599235
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hinduism and Hindi Theater written by Diana Dimitrova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960. It discusses representative works of seven influential playwrights and looks into the ways they have imagined and re-imagined Hindu traditions. Diana Dimitrova examines the intersections of Hinduism and Hindi theatre, emphasizing the important role that both myth and discourse play in the representation of Hindu traditions in the works of Bharatendu Harishcandra, Jayshankar Prasad, Lakshminarayan Mishra, Jagdishcandra Mathur, Bhuvaneshvar, Upendranath Ashk, and Mohan Rakesh. Dimitrova’a analysis suggests either a traditionalist or a more modernist stance toward religious issues. She emphasizes the absence of Hindi-speaking authors who deal with issues implicit to the Muslim or Sikh or Jain, etc. traditions. This prompts her to suggest that Hindi theatre of the period 1880-1960, as represented in the works of the seven dramatists discussed, should be seen as truly ‘Hindu-Hindi’ theatre.

Author : Muthal Naidoo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for a Cultural Identity written by Muthal Naidoo and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vasudha Dalmia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199087954
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetics, Plays, and Performances written by Vasudha Dalmia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies, and looking in particular at its appropriation of 'folk' theatre. Starting with the plays of Bharatendu Harishchandra in 1870s Banaras, the book moves forward to Jayshankar Prasad and Mohan Rakesh, landmark figures in the history of modern Indian drama. Dalmia then focuses on the intense urban interaction with folk theatre forms, their politicization in the 1940s and later again in the 1970s. Finally the book maps some of the routes taken by avant-garde women directors since the last decades of the twentieth century. Theatre students, critics, cultural historians, scholars of South Asian theatre, as well as general readers will find the book inspiring.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian Theatre Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ulla Haselstein
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Interactions written by Ulla Haselstein and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International conference proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies, held June 10-13, 2003, Munich.

Author : Mahin Gosine
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The East Indian Odyssey written by Mahin Gosine and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sumita S. Chakravarty
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789858
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987 written by Sumita S. Chakravarty and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses on the cinema’s characteristic forms, its range of meanings and pleasures, and, above all, its ideological construction of Indian national identity. Informed by theoretical developments in film theory, cultural studies, postcolonial discourse, and “Third World” cinema, the book identifies the major genres and movements within Bombay cinema since Independence and uses them to enter larger cultural debates about questions of identity, authenticity, citizenship, and collectivity. Chakravarty examines numerous films of the period, including Guide (Vijay Anand, 1965), Shri 420 [The gentleman cheat] (Raj Kapoor, 1955), and Bhumika [The role] (Shyam Benegal, 1977). She shows how “imperso-nation,” played out in masquerade and disguise, has characterized the representation of national identity in popular films, so that concerns and conflicts over class, communal, and regional differences are obsessively evoked, explored, and neutralized. These findings will be of interest to film and area specialists, as well as general readers in film studies.