Modern Indian Drama

Author : Nandi Bhatia
Publisher : Oxford India Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780198075066
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Indian Theatre written by Nandi Bhatia and published by Oxford India Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late nineteenth century, theatre has played a significant role in shaping social and political awareness in India. It has served to raise concerns in post-Independence India as well. Modern Indian Theatre: A Reader brings together writings that speak to the historical contexts from which theatrical practices emerged-colonization, socio-cultural suppression and appropriation, intercultural transformations brought about by the impact of the colonial forces, and acute critical engagement with socio-political issues brought about by the hopes and failures of Independence. The volume addresses pertinent questions like how drama influences social change, the response of drama to the emergence and domination of mass media and the proliferation and influence of western media in India, and how mediations of gender, class, and caste influence drama, its language, forms, and aesthetics. The Introduction by Nandi Bhatia provides a comprehensive understanding of the interface between Indian theatre and 'modernity'.

Author : Govind P. Deshpande
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Indian Drama written by Govind P. Deshpande and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is The First Comprehensive Anthology Of Modern Indian Drama. This Volume Includes 15 Plays By Sriranga, Badal Sircar, Girish Karnad, Satish Alekar, Utpal Dutt And Others.

Author : Lakshmi Subramanyam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788188575640
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Indian Drama written by Lakshmi Subramanyam and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Author : Erin B. Mee
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781905422760
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre of Roots written by Erin B. Mee and published by Seagull Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Independence, in 1947, in their efforts to create an 'Indian' theatre that was different from the Westernized, colonial theatre, Indian theatre practitioners began returning to their 'roots' in classical dance, religious ritual, martial arts, popular entertainment and aesthetic theory. The Theatre of Roots - as this movement was known - was the first conscious effort at creating a body of work for urban audiences combining modern European theatre with traditional Indian performance while maintaining its distinction from both. By addressing the politics of aesthetics and by challenging the visual practices, performer/spectator relationships, dramaturgical structures and aesthetic goals of colonial performance, the movement offered a strategy for reassessing colonial ideology and culture and for articulating and defining a newly emerging 'India'. Theatre of Roots presents an in-depth analysis of this movement: its innovations, theories, goals, accomplishments, problems and legacies.

Author : Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 158729642X
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatres of Independence written by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatres of Independence is the first comprehensive study of drama, theatre, and urban performance in post-independence India. Combining theatre history with theoretical analysis and literary interpretation, Aparna Dharwadker examines the unprecedented conditions for writing and performance that the experience of new nationhood created in a dozen major Indian languages and offers detailed discussions of the major plays, playwrights, directors, dramatic genres, and theories of drama that have made the contemporary Indian stage a vital part of postcolonial and world theatre.The first part of Dharwadker's study deals with the new dramatic canon that emerged after 1950 and the variety of ways in which plays are written, produced, translated, circulated, and received in a multi-lingual national culture. The second part traces the formation of significant postcolonial dramatic genres from their origins in myth, history, folk narrative, sociopolitical experience, and the intertextual connections between Indian, European, British, and American drama. The book's ten appendixes collect extensive documentation of the work of leading playwrights and directors, as well as a record of the contemporary multilingual performance histories of major Indian, Western, and non-Western plays from all periods and genres. Treating drama and theatre as strategically interrelated activities, the study makes post-independence Indian theatre visible as a multifaceted critical subject to scholars of modern drama, comparative theatre, theatre history, and the new national and postcolonial literatures.

Author : Girish Karnad
Publisher : Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Modern Indian Plays written by Girish Karnad and published by Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three modern Indian plays brought together here are established classics, all written around the mid-1960s. Girish Karnad's Tughlaq was originally written in Kannada and explores the psyche of a medieval monarch. Evam Indrajit by Badal Sircar, originally written in Bengali, uses myth to examine some of the dilemmas of the Indian middle classes. Both of these plays are translated into English by Girish Karnad.

Author : G.P. Deshpande
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788126018758
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Indian Drama written by G.P. Deshpande and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is The First Comprehensive Anthology Of Modern Indian Drama. 15 Modern Plays In Different Indian Languages Brought Together Here Represent The Thematic And Formal Concerns Of Contemporary Indian Playwrights.

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 : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Indian Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 037571300X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature written by Amit Chaudhuri and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the present, presenting today’s brightest talents in the company of their distinguished forbearers and likely heirs. The thirty-eight authors collected by novelist Amit Chaudhuri write not only in English but also in Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu. They include Rabindranath Tagore, arguably the first international literary celebrity, chronicling the wistful relationship between a village postal inspector and a servant girl, and Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee, represented by an excerpt from his classic novel about an impoverished Bengali childhood, Pather Panchali. Here, too, are selections from Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, R. K. Narayan’s The English Teacher, and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children alongside a high-spirited nonsense tale, a drily funny account of a pre-Partition Muslim girlhood, and a Bombay policier as gripping as anything by Ed McBain. Never before has so much of the subcontinent’s writing been made available in a single volume.