Ibsen in the decolonised South Asian theatre /

"This book maps South Asian theatre productions that have contextualised Ibsen's plays to underscore the emergent challenges of postcolonial nation formation. The concerns addressed in this collection include politico-cultural engagements with human rights, economic and environmental issue...

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Other Authors: Huq, Sabiha (Editor), Mukherjee, Srideep (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, c2024.
Series:Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Post-colonial theatre and Ibsen productions in Pakistan : a historical overview / Asghar Nadeem Syed
  • Intercultural assimilation of contraries in postcolonial South Asia : fluctuating movement of Ibsen's corpus / Kamaluddin Nilu
  • Constructing a new identity space for women in post-colony : Sambhu Mitra's production of A Doll's House / Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman
  • Women's movement in Pakistan : Tehrik-e-Niswan's A Doll's House in Urdu / Ishrat Lindblad
  • Nora and the politics of gender in the postcolonial performance space in Sri Lanka / Kanchuka Dharmasiri & K Rathitharan
  • Has the Indian 'doll' really evolved? : A Doll's House on decolonised Indian Stage(s) / Srideep Mukherjee
  • Middle class liberal values and the Bangladeshi national imaginary : Ibsen's Ghosts Reconfigured / Manosh Chowdhury
  • By means of Ibsen : theatre amidst rising fanaticism in post-partition India and Bangladesh / Sabiha Huq
  • Kamaluddin Nilu's Three 'Peer's : Relocating Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt in South Asian contemporaneity / Imran Kamal
  • Unheard voices & refracted essence : Bangla Adaptations of An Enemy of the People and The Pillars of Society / Tapati Gupta
  • A Doll's House in Nepal : rationalising the appropriation of Putaliko Ghar / Menuka Gurung
  • Peer Ghani and Peechha Karti Parchhaiyan : negotiating adaptation and appropriation / Astri Ghosh.