Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays: Poetics, Politics, and Theatre in India
Price: 1495.00 INR
ISBN:
9780192869067
Publication date:
15/02/2023
Hardback
200 pages
Price: 1495.00 INR
ISBN:
9780192869067
Publication date:
15/02/2023
Hardback
200 pages
Diana Dimitrova
The author uses theoretical models of literary and cultural studies by going beyond them to discuss texts written in South Asian languages and engage in critical dialogue with current scholarship in Asia and beyond, which remains indispensable for the study of literary and cultural production in South Asia.
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Diana Dimitrova
Description
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.
About the author:
Diana Dimitrova is Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Traditions at the University of Montreal.
Diana Dimitrova
Table of contents
1. Introduction, Diana Dimitrova
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
Diana Dimitrova
Diana Dimitrova
Description
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.
About the author:
Diana Dimitrova is Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Traditions at the University of Montreal.
Read MoreTable of contents
1. Introduction, Diana Dimitrova
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
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