Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama : community, kinship, and citizenship /
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| Author / Creator: | Batra, Kanika, 1972- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 17 Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 17. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8349905 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Permissions
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Feminist Visions and Queer Futures
- Part I. Jamaica
- 1. Making Citizens: Community, Kinship, and the National Imaginary in Dennis Scott's An Echo in the Bone (1974) and Dog (1978)
- 2. "We Shouldn't Shame to Talk": Postcolonial Sexual Citizenship in Sistren Theatre Collective's Bellywoman Banagarang and QPH
- Part II. India
- 3. A People's Theatre from Delhi in Alliance with the Women's Movement
- 4. Queering the Subaltern: Postcolonial Performativity in Mahesh Dattani's Seven Steps around the Fire and Mahasweta Devi and Usha Ganguli's Rudali
- Part III. Nigeria
- 5. Resistant Citizenship: Reading Feminist Praxis and Democratic Renewal in Nigeria through Femi Osofisan's Morountodun
- 6. "Daughters Who Know the Languages of Power:" Community, Sexuality, and Postcolonial Development in Tess Onwueme's Tell It to Women
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
