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Acts of authority/acts of resistance
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.
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Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies
Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies is the first
in-depth study of Sabha Theater, a type of Tamil-language popular
theater that started in Chennai (Madras) in the period following
India's independence, thriving especially between 1965 and 1985.
Breaking new ground in the study of stage and performance, this
interdisciplinary book presents a complex view of a significant
genre, using historical research and ethnographic information
obtained through interviews with performers, writers, and audience
members, as well as observations of rehearsals, performances, and
television and film shootings. This careful coverage not only
contextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and
aesthetically within the wider history of the Tamil stage and a
performance scene that includes classical dance and mass media but
also reveals how its plays express a Tamil Brahmin identity that is
at once traditional and modern. Analyzing what particular plays
mean to the specific, urban, elite Brahmin community that produces
and consumes them, Kristen Rudisill examines humor that reveals a
complex Brahmin identity and surveys markers of moral superiority.
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