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Performing Shakespeare in India : exploring indianness, literatures and cultures / edited by Shormishtha Panja and Babli Moitra Saraf.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi, India : SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2016.Description: vii, 268p. ; 22cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789351509745 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.950954 PAN 22
LOC classification:
  • PR3109.I4 P36 2016
Summary: This book delves into what constitutes Indianness in the postcolonial context by looking into the text and sub-text of the Bard of Avon's plays adapted in visual culture, translation, stage performance and cinema. The book is an important intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, as it explores how Shakespeare has impacted the emergence of regional identities around questions of language and linguistic empowerment in various ways. It reveals an extraordinary negotiation of colonial and postcolonial identity issues--be it in language, in social and cultural practices or in art forms.
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Book Book Calcutta 792.950954 PAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available IIMC-0145113
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book delves into what constitutes Indianness in the postcolonial context by looking into the text and sub-text of the Bard of Avon's plays adapted in visual culture, translation, stage performance and cinema. The book is an important intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, as it explores how Shakespeare has impacted the emergence of regional identities around questions of language and linguistic empowerment in various ways. It reveals an extraordinary negotiation of colonial and postcolonial identity issues--be it in language, in social and cultural practices or in art forms.

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