ABSTRACT
This book interrogates the relationship of theatre and the dialectics of centre and the margins. It looks into the exciting world of performance to examine how theatre as an art form is perfectly placed to both perform and critique complex relations of power, politics, and culture.
The volume looks into how drama has historically served as a stage for expressing and showcasing prevalent social, historical, and cultural contexts from which it has emerged or intends to critique. Including a wide range of performative practices like Dalit Theatre, Australian Aboriginal theatre, Western realism, and Yoruba theatre, it explores varied lived experiences of people, and voices of subversion, subalternity, resistance, and transformation. The book scrutinises the strategies of representation enunciated through textuality, theatricality, and performance in these works and the politics they are inextricably linked with.
This book will be of interest and use to scholars, researchers, and students of theatre and performance studies, postcolonial studies, race and inequality studies, gender studies, and culture studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|90 pages
India
chapter 2|12 pages
“Where There Is Power, There Is Resistance” 1
chapter 3|12 pages
Budhan Bolta Hai
chapter 5|12 pages
Touching at Tangents
chapter 6|12 pages
Performing Resistance
part II|68 pages
North America and the Caribbean
chapter 9|12 pages
A Search for One's Own Place
chapter 10|16 pages
Black Skin, Female Body
chapter 11|13 pages
The Body Is a (New Materialist) State Apparatus
chapter 12|15 pages
Fall and Redemption
part III|52 pages
Africa
chapter 13|12 pages
“I am One of Your Children”
chapter 14|11 pages
The Idea of the Margin and Its Vigorous Problematisation
chapter 16|13 pages
Retelling Myth/Reconfiguring Subalternity
part IV|30 pages
Australia