Ibsen in the Decolonised South Asian Theatre

ISBN-13: 9781032182063 / Twarda / 2023 / 312 str.

Opis

This book maps South Asian theatre productions that have contextualised Ibsen’s plays to underscore the emergent challenges of postcolonial nation formation.

Spis treści

Introduction

SABIHA HUQ AND SRIDEEP MUKHERJEE

1 Postcolonial Theatre and Ibsen Productions in Pakistan: A Historical Overview

ASGHAR NADEEM SYED

2 Intercultural Assimilation of Contraries in Postcolonial South Asia: Fluctuating Movement of Ibsen’s Corpus

KAMALUDDIN NILU

3 Constructing a New Identity Space for Women in Post-Colony: Sambhu Mitra’s Production of A Doll’s House

AHMED AHSANUZZAMAN

4 Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Tehrik-e-Niswan’s A Doll’s House in Urdu

ISHRAT LINDBLAD

5 Nora and the Politics of Gender in the Postcolonial Performance Space in Sri Lanka

KANCHUKA DHARMASIRI AND KATHIRESU RATHITHARAN

6 Has the Indian “Doll” Really Evolved?: A Doll’s House on Decolonised Indian Stage(s)

SRIDEEP MUKHERJEE

7 Middle-Class Liberal Values and the Bangladeshi National Imaginary: Ibsen’s Ghosts Reconfigured

MANOSH CHOWDHURY

8 By Means of Ibsen: Theatre Amidst Rising Fanaticism in Post-Partition India and Bangladesh

SABIHA HUQ

9 Kamaluddin Nilu’s Three “Peers”: Relocating Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt in South Asian Contemporaneity

IMRAN KAMAL

10 Unheard Voices and Refracted Essence: Bangla Adaptations of An Enemy of the People and The Pillars of Society

TAPATI GUPTA

11 A Doll’s House in Nepal: Rationalising the Appropriation of Putaliko Ghar

MENUKA GURUNG

12 Peer Ghani and Peechha Karti Parchhaiyan: Negotiating Adaptation and Appropriation

ASTRI GHOSH

Index

O autorze

Sabiha Huq is Professor of English at Khulna University, Bangladesh.

Srideep Mukherjee is Associate Professor of English at Netaji Subhas Open University, India.