Ibsen in the Decolonised South Asian Theatre

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-18206-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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

The concerns addressed in this collection include politico-cultural engagements with human rights, economic and environmental issues, and globalisation, all of which have evolved through colonial times and thereafter. This book contemplates why and how these Ibsen texts were repeatedly adapted for the stage and consequently reflects upon the political intent of this appropriative journey of the foreign playwright.

This book tracks the unmapped agency that South Asian theatre has acquired through aesthetic appropriation of Ibsen and thereby contributes to his global reception. This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huq, Sabiha

Mukherjee, Srideep

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theater: Technik, Bühnentechnik, Einrichtung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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

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