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Mapping South Asia through contemporary theatre = essays on the theatres of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mapping South Asia through contemporary theatre/ Edited by Ashis SenGupta.
Reminder of title:	essays on the theatres of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka /
Author:	SenGupta, Ashis,
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	272 p. :10 b&w, ill. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Theater and society - South Asia. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137375140 (electronic bk.) :

Mapping South Asia through contemporary theatre = essays on the theatres of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka /
SenGupta, Ashis,

Mapping South Asia through contemporary theatreessays on the theatres of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka /[electronic resource] :Edited by Ashis SenGupta. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 272 p. :10 b&w, ill. - Studies in international performance.

Electronic book text.

Foreword-- Aparna Dharwadker Introduction: Setting the Stage-- Ashis Sengupta 1. Dispatches from the Margins: Theatre in India since the 1990s-- Shayoni Mitra 2. Theatre Chronicles: Framing Theatre Narratives in Pakistan's Sociopolitical Context-- Asma Mundrawala 3. Designs of Living in the Contemporary Theatre of Bangladesh-- Syed Jamil Ahmed 4. Towards an Engaged Stage: Nepali Theatre in Uncertain Times-- Carol C. Davis 5. From Narratives of National Origin to Bloodied Streets: Contemporary Sinhala and Tamil Theatre in Sri Lanka-- Kanchuka Dharmasiri Select Bibliography Index.

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While remapping the region by examining enduring historical and cultural connections, this study discusses multiple traditions and practices of theatre and performance in five South Asian countries within their specific political and socio-cultural contexts.Mapping South Asia Through Contemporary Theatre probes the overlap of theatre, society and politics in contemporary South Asia, approaching theatre primarily in politico-aesthetic terms and locating it in the simultaneity of local, national and regional discourse. While re-mapping the region by examining enduring historical and cultural connections, the study discusses multiple traditions and practices of theatre and performance in five South Asian countries within their specific political and socio-cultural contexts. South Asian theatre today means a whole range of performance genres and practices - appropriation of traditional forms in an urban, alternatively modern theatre; improvised and collectively devised performances on or off the proscenium stage; dramatic theatre in local languages or in English; translation/adaptation of foreign plays; and a whole host of community and applied theatre types. The book creates a complex framework of contemporary South Asian theatre with its affinities and disaffinities, continuities and discontinuities - a pattern that broadly hinges on its abiding as well as changing contours of reciprocal relationship with socio-political realities.

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Ashis Sengupta is Professor of English at the University of North Bengal. Recipient of the Olive I Reddick award (1995), Fulbright American Studies Institute fellowship (2002), Fulbright visiting scholarship (2006) and SASNET guest lecturer grant (2009), he has published numerous essays and chapters on South Asian and American theatre in journals and edited volumes that include the Journal of American Studies, Comparative American Studies, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Indian Literature, and DLB: South Asian Writers in English.

ISBN: 1137375140 (electronic bk.) :£55.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

1010008
Theater and society
--South Asia.

LC Class. No.: PN2860 / .M35 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 792.0954

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