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ABSTRACT
This book examines Bertolt Brecht’s influence on Indian theatre. One of the most established instances of scholarly engagement with the discourse of influence in the West is Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence. Bloom’s conceptualisation follows a model where the influence that comes from the hierarchical stars descends to something lower. 1 As Bloom cogently puts it, the “flowing from the stars upon our fates and our personalities is the prime meaning of influence” (xii). This downward movement from the higher to the lower affirms influence as a challenge to the uniqueness of the influenced, both in retaliation and submission: the influenced is in a subservient position of power.
