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Hungry translations : relearning the world through radical vulnerability / by Richa Nagar in journeys with Santin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan and Parakh Theatre.

Van Pelt Library HQ1236.5.I4 N33 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Nagar, Richa, author.
Series:
Transformations (University of Illinois (System). Press)
Transformations: womanist, feminist, and indigenous studies
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Saṅgatina (Organization).
Women political activists--India--Sītāpur (District).
Women political activists.
Poor women.
Social conditions.
Rural women.
Economic conditions.
India--Sītāpur (District).
Women's rights--India--Sītāpur (District).
Women's rights.
Marginality, Social--India--Sītāpur (District).
Marginality, Social.
Rural women--India--Sītāpur (District)--Social conditions.
Rural women--India--Sītāpur (District)--Economic conditions.
Poor women--India--Sītāpur (District)--Social conditions.
Feminism--India.
Feminism.
India.
Women's studies.
Feminist theory.
Poor women--Social conditions.
Rural women--Economic conditions.
Rural women--Social conditions.
Physical Description:
xii, 299 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication:
Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Summary:
About the struggles of thousands Dalit women, laborers and peasants of Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh under Sangatina; includes not only the words and reflections of many saathis of Sangtin, but also the everyday stories of their struggles, poems by Richa Nagar and a play.
Contents:
Aalaap p. 1
Part 1 Staging Stories p. 5
Part 2 Movement as Theater: Storylines, Scenes, Lessons, and Reflections
Walking Together p. 49
A Long War p. 66
The Journey Continues p. 86
Part 3 Living in Character: "Kafan " as Hansa
Nourishment p. 107
Mumtaz and Budhiya p. 110
Hansa, Karo Puratan Baat! p. 123
Entangled Scripts and Bodies: Theater as Pedagogy p. 146
Hungry for Hansa p. 177
Part 4 Stories, Bodies, Movements: A Syllabus in Fifteen Acts
One More Time p. 201
Synopsis and Backdrop p. 205
Initial Keywords, Props, Premises p. 211
Formal Outcomes, Expectations, Grades, and Assignments p. 215
The Fifteen Acts p. 218.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and index.
ISBN:
9780252084409
0252084403
OCLC:
1096517351

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