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Contemporary Indian Drama : Astride Two Traditions : Festschrift for Professor Santosh Gupta

Edited by Urmil Talwar and Bandana Chakrabarty, Rawat, 2005, xi, 284 p, ISBN : 81-7033-935-9, $33.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)

Contemporary Indian Drama : Astride Two Traditions : Festschrift for Professor Santosh Gupta/edited by Urmil Talwar and Bandana Chakrabarty

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Play as performance: a circle of theatrical communication/Ravi Chaturvedi. 2. Interpreting the play/Tanuja Mathur. 3. The curious journey of the Indian drama in English/Jasbir Jain. 4. Retreating into tribal mansions: race and religion in plays written by Parsi Zoroastrians in India/Nilufer E. Bharucha. 5. The bold and the meek/Ranbir Sinh. 6. Immigrant spaces: Uma Parameswaran and Sadhu Binning/Supriya Agarwal. 7. Re-constructing the past and critiquing the present: Mahasweta Devi's plays/Bandana Chakrabarty. 8. Gender crossings: Vijay Tendulkar's deconstructive Axis in Sakharam Binder, Kamala and Kanyadaan/Sudha Rai. 9. 'Viewing' women: an exploration of Ezekiel's plays/Shaila Mahan. 10. Girish Karnad: tying beginnings to ends/Sridhar Rajeswaran. 11. Locating Bakhtinian Carnival in Girish Karnad's Hayavadana and Naga-Mandala/Sudha Shastri and Amith Kumar P.V. 12. The not-so-gay 'Gay' plays of Mahesh Dattani/Nidhi Singh. 13. Dramatic structures in Mahesh Dattani's Tara and final solutions/Charu Mathur. 14. Building a great tradition/Chaman Ahuja interviews Girish Karnad. 15. The fugue of experience: transcreating poetic metatheatre/Anju Dhadda Misra and Arti Sah. 16. Absurdist Dilemmas: Sircar's Evam Indrajit/Preeti Bhatt. 17. The protean self: Karnad's Tughlaq/Urmil Talwar. 18. Gurcharan Das's Larins Sahib/Pranav Joshipura. 19. Transformation to transcendence: Gurcharan Das's Mira/Madhuri Chatterjee. 20. Vulnerable victims: Vijay Tendulkar's Kamala/Nishi Upadhyaya. 21. The 'Narrative' of a play: Cyrus Mistry's Doongaji House/Jasbir Jain. 22. The potential and the real: Dina Mehta's brides are not for burning/Neelam Raisinghani. 23. Meaning in Abyss: Dattani's seven steps around the fire/Venkat Ramani. 24. Countering darkness: Manjula Padmanabhan's Lights out/Sonu Shiva.

"Contemporary Indian Drama: Astride Two Traditions is a collection of twenty-two essays, an interview and a few poems translated from Hindi on Metatheatre that bring in a large variety of issues related to dramaturgy, interpretative processes and directorial interventions.

Divided into three sections, the first focuses on theoretical and historical perspectives, contextualised with reference to contemporary Indian drama in English and English translations. This is followed by an interlude which consists of the interview and poems. In the third section, the writers move on to individual writers and texts covering the thematic thrusts as well as dramatic experimentation, the use of history, myth and folk forms.

Contemporary Indian Drama works with two literary and cultural traditions - the oriental and the western - and it moves from the page to the stage. The book will be of interest to the theatre lovers, the researchers and the general reader." (jacket)

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