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ACTS OF AUTHORITY/ACTS OF RESISTANCE
THEATER AND POLITICS IN COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIA |
| By: |
Nandi Bhatia |
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Hardback |
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£69.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0472112635 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780472112630 |
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
20 May, 2004 |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Description: |
Bhatia argues that Indian theatre was a central force in the struggle against oppressive colonial and postcolonial structures, as it sought to undo various scheme of political and cultural power through engagement with subjects derived from mythology, history, and available colonial models such as Shakespeare. |
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Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice of nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. Nandi Bhatia argues that Indian theater was a significant force in the struggle against oppressive colonial and postcolonial structures, as it sought to undo various schemes of political and cultural power through its engagement with subjects derived from mythology, history, and available colonial models such as Shakespeare. Bhatia's attention to local histories within a postcolonial framework places performance in a global and transcultural context. Drawing connections between art and politics, between performance and everyday experience, Bhatia shows how performance often intervened in political debates and even changed the course of politics. One of the first Western studies of Indian theater to link the aesthetics and the politics of that theater, Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance combines in-depth archival research with close readings of dramatic texts performed at critical moments in history. Each chapter amplifies its themes against the backdrop of specific social conditions as it examines particular dramatic productions, from The Indigo Mirror to adaptations of Shakespeare plays by Indian theater companies, illustrating the role of theater in bringing nationalist, anticolonial, and gendered struggles into the public sphere.Nandi Bhatia is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario." |
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US |
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The University of Michigan Press |
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