| 书目名称 | Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India | | 副标题 | Formation of a Commu | | 编辑 | Sharmistha Saha | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Is an innovative addition to Indian theatre historiography.Opens up a new perspective on the history of Indian ‘theatre’ as well as of the Indian nation.Provides a novel approach to the formation of t | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book critically engages with the study of theatre and performance in colonial India, and relates it with colonial (and postcolonial) discussions on experience, freedom, institution-building, modernity, nation/subject. .not only as concepts but also as philosophical queries. It opens up with the discourse around ‘Indian theatre’ that was started by the orientalists in the late 18th century, and which continued till much later. The study specifically focuses on the two major urban centres of colonial India: Bombay and Calcutta of the 19.th. and early 20.th. centuries. It discusses different cultural practices in colonial India, including the initiation of ‘Indian theatre’ practices, which resulted in many forms of colonial-native ‘theatre’ by the 19th century; the challenges to this dominant discourse from the ‘.swadeshi jatra.’ (national jatra/theatre) in Bengal, which drew upon earlier folk and religious traditions and was usedas a tool by the nationalist movement; and the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) that functioned from Bombay around the 1940s, which focused on the creation of one national subject – that of the ‘Indian’. The author contextualizes the relevance | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | national theatre in colonial India; folk and street theatre; Indian People’s Theatre Association; Uday | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1177-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-981-13-1177-2 | | copyright | The Author(s) 2018 |
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