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Moni, Sujatha.

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Transgressing the boundaries of performance: Desire and alterity in postcolonial drama on India.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transgressing the boundaries of performance: Desire and alterity in postcolonial drama on India./
Author:	Moni, Sujatha.
Description:	277 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0178.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-01A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3203390
ISBN:	9780542513961

Transgressing the boundaries of performance: Desire and alterity in postcolonial drama on India.
Moni, Sujatha.

Transgressing the boundaries of performance: Desire and alterity in postcolonial drama on India. - 277 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0178.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2006.

This study of postcolonial drama on India draws from theories of performance, postcoloniality, gender studies and psychoanalysis to analyze the structuring of desire in alterity under the circumstances engendered by colonialism and postcoloniality. The plays analyzed in the dissertation are: Marguerite Duras' India Song, Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink, Gurcharan Das' Larins Sahib, Utpal Dutt's The Great Rebellion , Helene Cixous' Indiade, David Edgar's Our Own People, Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest, and Girish Karnad's The Dreams of Tipu Sultan. In all these plays, India is the central symbol through which relations of desire and alterity are constructed on the postcolonial stage. Desire leads to acts of transgression and to a destabilization of the stable categories through which the subject and the other are represented within performance. While desire in alterity leads to the forging of overlapping, hybrid identities, it is not sufficient to overcome the rigid structures of power existing within colonial and postcolonial societies. I argue that in such contexts, whatever scope there is for subaltern agency, exists in the failure of alterity and in the ambivalence arising from its impossibility.

ISBN: 9780542513961Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Transgressing the boundaries of performance: Desire and alterity in postcolonial drama on India.
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