The Indigenous voice of Poetomachia : the various perspectives of textuality and performance / edited by Robert Masterson and Sayan Dey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Masterson, Robert, editor.

Dey, Sayan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

In the present era, when all of human civilization is struggling to preserve their individualities as a result of global commercialism and totalitarianism, theatre and drama play a metonymic role in composing and shaping aspects of human existence. However, there is debate as to how much the text and the stage are able to play a significant role towards staging individual voices on the vast global platform. This book, a collection of twelve essays and two interviews from scholars across the world, explores the different perspectives of textuality and performance. The analytical mode of the plays analysed here reveals different possible directions of dramatic reading. It represents a comprehensive study of drama and theatre, and the contributions will serve as an asset for both undergraduate and graduate students. The indigenous perspectives (both in terms of theatre and drama) provided here push the reader beyond the prevailing clichéd drama and theatre studies.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Editors Voices

Preface

Foreword

Introduction

Section 1- Beyond the Stage

Surveillance, Sedition and Censorship

Comedy between Production and Audience Consumption

Writing Outside of Language

Urs at Mastanana Baba Dargah, Masjid Banda, Near Kondapur, Hyderabad, Telengana

Section 2 - Analysis as Enactment

Badal Sircar's Evam Indrajit

The Seed of a Problem

The Art of Precision

Section 3 - An Alternative Dramatic Analysis

Disregard for the Cultural Roots and Self-Destruction

The Resilience of Rape Victims

Mother Africa versus her Betrayer Son

Language, Identity, and Culture in Brian Friel's Translations

Dialectics of Center and Margin

Section 4 - Verbalizing Performance

Marathi Theatre and its Problems and Tensions

The Multi-dimensionalities of Dance and Theatre

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5275-1032-8

OCLC:

1031847686