Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama
Subtitle: community, kinship, and citizenship
By: Kanika Batra
Series: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies -- 17; Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies -- 17.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780415875912; 9780203839850
Subjects: Feminism in literature; Women in literature; Feminism and theater; History and criticism; Sex role in literature; Feminist theater; Feminist drama; Postcolonialism in literature; Postcolonialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Jamaica. Making citizens: community, kinship, and the national imaginary in Dennis Scott's An echo in the bone (1974) and Dog (1978); title: We shouldn't shame to talk: postcolonial sexual citizenship in Sistren Theatre Collective's Bellywoman Banagarang and QPH; title: India. A people's theatre from Delhi in alliance with the women's movement; title: Queering the subaltern: postcolonial performativity in Mahesh Dattani's Seven steps around the fire and Mahasweta Devi and Usha Ganguli's Rudali; title: Nigeria. Resistant citizenship: reading feminist praxis and democratic renewal in Nigeria through Femi Osofisan's Morountodun; title: Daughters who know the languages of power: community, sexuality, and postcolonial development in Tess Onwueme's Tell it to women; title: Epilogue.