Title Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama : community, kinship, and citizenship / Kanika Batra

Published New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 178 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 17 Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 17. Contents Introduction -- Jamaica. Making citizens: community, kinship, and the national imaginary in Dennis Scott's An echo in the bone (1974) and Dog (1978) -- We shouldn't shame to talk: postcolonial sexual citizenship in Sistren Theatre Collective's Bellywoman Banagarang and QPH -- India. A people's theatre from Delhi in alliance with the women's movement -- Queering the subaltern: postcolonial performativity in Mahesh Dattani's Seven steps around the fire and Mahasweta Devi and Usha Ganguli's Rudali -- Nigeria. Resistant citizenship: reading feminist praxis and democratic renewal in Nigeria through Femi Osofisan's Morountodun -- Daughters who know the languages of power: community, sexuality, and postcolonial development in Tess Onwueme's Tell it to women -- Epilogue 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 discourse on a rights-bearing conception of citizenship that derives from representations of non-biological, non-generational forms of kinship. Her study is one of the first to examine the ways in which postcolonial dramatists are creating the possibility of a dialogue between cultural activism, women's movements, and an emerging discourse on queer sexualities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL Print version record Subject Feminist drama -- History and criticism Feminism and theater. Feminist theater -- Jamaica Feminist theater -- India Feminist theater -- Nigeria Feminism in literature. Women in literature. Sex role in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. Feminism and theater Feminism in literature Feminist drama Feminist theater Postcolonialism Postcolonialism in literature Sex role in literature Women in literature Frauenliteratur Homosexualität Motiv Postkoloniale Literatur Commonwealth countries India Jamaica Nigeria Indien Jamaika Nigeria Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203839850 0203839854 9781136887536 1136887539

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