Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India Formation of a Community through Cultural Practice /

• Main Author: Saha, Sharmistha (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Theater.; Cultural studies.; Drama.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.; Cultural Studies.

This book critically engages with the study of theatre and performance in colonial India, and relates it with colonial (and postcolonial) discussions on experience, freedom, institution-building, modernity, nation/subject not only as concepts but also as philosophical queries. It opens up with the d...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Nation and its Theatre: Towards a Methodology
• Part I Thinking Indian Theatre
• 2. Critical Meanderings: 'Theatre' in Colonial India
• Part II Performing Indian Theatre
• 3. A New Sociability: The Colonial Urbes Prima Goes to the Theatre
• 4. Coming Communities and Vacillating Definitions: The Case of Censorship and Swadeshi Jatra
• 5. The Commune-ist Air-The Case of the IPTA Central Squad
• 6. Epilogue: Indian Theatre: What Are We Talking About?
• Bibliography.