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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Batra, Kanika, 1972-

Series:

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 17.

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist drama--History and criticism.

Feminist drama.

Feminism and theater.

Feminist theater--Jamaica.

Feminist theater.

Feminist theater--India.

Feminist theater--Nigeria.

Feminism in literature.

Women in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries.

Postcolonialism.

Commonwealth countries.

Nigeria.

India.

Jamaica.

Physical Description:

xv, 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415875912

0415875919

OCLC:

432998121