Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama : community, kinship, and citizenship /: community, kinship, and citizenship. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kanika Batra.
• Other Names: Batra, Kanika, 1972-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (213 pages), (12 illustrations)
• Subjects: 792.082; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; 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 / General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136887536; 1136887539
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.