| Description |
1 online resource (195 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Permissions; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Feminist Visions and Queer Futures; Part I: Jamaica; 1 Making Citizens: Community, Kinship, and the National Imaginary in Dennis Scott's An Echo in the Bone (1974) and Dog (1978); 2 "We Shouldn't Shame to Talk": Postcolonial Sexual Citizenship in Sistren Theatre Collective's Bellywoman Bangarang and QPH; Part II: India; 3 A People's Theatre from Delhi in Alliance with the Women's Movement |
| Summary |
In this timely study, Batra€examines contemporary drama from India, Jamaica, and Nigeria in conjunction with feminist and incipient queer movements in these countries.€Postcolonial drama, Batra contends, furthers the struggle for gender justice in€both€these movements€by contesting the idea of the heterosexual, middle class, wage-earning male as the model citizen and by€suggesting alternative conceptions of citizenship premised on working-class sexual identities. Further, Batra considers the possibility of Indian, Jamaican, and Nigerian drama generating a discours |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Feminist drama -- History and criticism
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Feminism and theater.
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Feminist theater -- Jamaica
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Feminist theater -- India
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Feminist theater -- Nigeria
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Feminism in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries
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Feminism and theater
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Feminism in literature
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Feminist drama
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Feminist theater
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Postcolonialism
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Sex role in literature
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Women in literature
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Commonwealth countries
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India
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Jamaica
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Nigeria
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203839850 |
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0203839854 |
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