Poetics, plays, and performances :the politics of modern Indian theatre

• 作者: Dalmia, Vasudha,
• 出版: Delhi ;Oxford : Oxford University Press 2008.
• 版本: Oxford India paperbacks 2008.
• 稽核項: xiii, 366 p. :ill. ;22 cm.
• 標題: Theater and society India. , Nationalism India. , Theater , Social aspects , Drama Social aspects -- India. , Drama , Theater and society , Theater India. , Theater Political aspects -- India. , Political aspects , Nationalism , Drama Political aspects -- India.
• ISBN: 0195695054 , 9780195695052
• 附註: 103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題 : 藝術學 : 全球化與劇場跨界. Originally published: 2006. Includes bibliographical references and index. Pt. 1. In search of a national theatre. 'The national drama of the Hindus' : Harishchandra of Banaras and the 'classical' traditions in late-nineteenth-century India -- Twentieth-century projections of the past : Jayshankar Prasad and the new subjectivity -- Neither half nor whole : Mohan Rakesh and the modernist quest -- Pt. 2. The nation and its 'Folk'. Folk theatre and the search for an indigenous idiom : Brecht in India -- Brecht in Hindi : the poetics of response -- 'To be more Brechtian is to be more Indian' : on the theatre of Habib Tanvir -- Pt. 3. What is Indian? Encountering the other, accosting the self -- 'I am a Hindu' : assertions and queries.
• 摘要: This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, propelled by the urban interest in folk theatre and the popularity of Brecht. Just as Brecht's theatre held out the promise of widening the scope of middle-class concerns, of questioning the politics of theatre, and of overcoming the bounds of the proscenium stage, Indian theatre turned to Hindi as the national language of production. What theatrical practice could this newly realized "national" theatre invoke? Was there dramatic composition in modern Hindi, did it have any theatrical tradition? The book delves into the past, to the plays of Bharatendu Harischandra in 1870s Banaras, and forward from there to Jayshankar Prasad and Mohan Rakesh, landmark figures in the history of modern Hindi drama. Also, the use and misuse of "folk" theatre was of significance because it helped in the analysis of Indian theatre makers' understanding of Brecht. The overall focus of the volume is on the politics of modern Indian theatre, particularly the action and reaction inspired by official policy-making in the capital of the country, and its international representation. The last chapter maps some of the routes taken by the avant-garde women directors of the last decade of the 20th century.
• 系統號: 005263351
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