Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays

Poetics, Politics, and Theatre in India
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-286906-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It aims at studying questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the 19th- and 20th- centuries and the interplay of poetics and politics, as revealed in the work of several influential playwrights. The book explores questions related to the ways in which seven representative playwrights imagine India and its identity and the ways, in which this concept is revealed in the "narratives of the nation", its postcolonial contentions and the politics of identity, as revealed in the production of various cultural discourses. The chapters explore various aspects of the ongoing process of constructing and narrating culture, gender, the nation and identity. There has been no monograph on the questions of cultural identity in Hindi drama. This is a pioneering project and a desideratum in the field of Hindi literature, South Asian Studies, and broadly, in the study of theatre of India and of South Asian cultures and literatures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dimitrova, Diana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Diana Dimitrova: Introduction

- 2: Rethinking Cultural Identity

- 3: Hindi Drama: A Historical Perspective

- 4: Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays in the period 1880-1940s

- 5: Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays of the 1940s-1970s

- 6: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Diana Dimitrova is Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Traditions at the University of Montreal.