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Islam in performance : contemporary plays from South Asia / edited by Ashis Sengupta.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Multiple languages
- Subjects (All):
- Islam in literature.
- Drama--21st century.
- Drama.
- South Asian literature--21st century.
- South Asian literature.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 345 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017.
- Language Note:
- Translated into English.
- Summary:
- Islam in Performance brings together six contemporary plays from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan that highlight the political performance of Islam in South Asia, especially since the 1947 partition of the subcontinent. Widely performed but largely unpublished, the plays with their geographic and stylistic range provide a good spectrum of some of the best writing in contemporary South Asian drama. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Plays from Bangladesh 43
- At the Sound of Marching Feet / Payer Awaj Pawa Jai Jai, Payer Awaj Pawa, Syed Shamsul Haq Haq, Syed Shamsul 45
- Life of Araj / Araj Charitamrita / Masum Reza Reza, Masum, Bina Biswas Biswas, Bina, Sayantan Gupta Gupta, Sayantan 105
- Plays from India 163
- The Djinns of Eidgah / Abhishek Majumdar Majumdar, Abhishek 165
- The Far-reaching Night / Bahut Dur Tak Raat Hogi Hogi, Bahut Dur Tak Raat, Zahida Zaidi Zaidi, Zahida, Ameena Kazi Ansari Ansari, Ameena Kazi 247
- Plays from Pakistan 289
- We Shall Resist / Hum Rokaen Gae / Anwer Jafri Jafri, Anwer, Sheema Kermani Kermani, Sheema 291
- Watch the Show and Move on / Dekh Tamasha Chalta Ban / Shahid Nadeem Nadeem, Shahid, Shuby Abidi Abidi, Shuby 319.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 36-42).
- Contains:
- Haka, Saiẏada Śāmasula, 1935-2016. Payer awaj pawa jai. English
- Reza, Masum. Araj Charitamrita. English.
- Majumdar, Abhishek. Djinns of Eidgah.
- Zaidī, Zāhidah. Bahut Dur Tak Raat Hogi. English.
- Jafri, Anwer Hussain. Hum Rokaen Gae. English.
- Nadīma, Shāhida. Dekh Tamasha Chalta Ban. English.
- ISBN:
- 9781474250719
- 1474250718
- 9781474250702
- 147425070X
- OCLC:
- 971495324
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