This book maps South Asian theatre productions that have contextualised Ibsen’s plays to underscore the emergent challenges of postcolonial nation formation.
This book maps South Asian theatre productions that have contextualised Ibsen’s plays to underscore the emergent challenges of postcolonial nation formation.
The concerns addressed in this collection include politico-cultural engagements with human rights, economic and environmental issues, and globalisation, all of which have evolved through colonial times and thereafter. This book contemplates why and how these Ibsen texts were repeatedly adapted for the stage and consequently reflects upon the political intent of this appropriative journey of the foreign playwright.
This book tracks the unmapped agency that South Asian theatre has acquired through aesthetic appropriation of Ibsen and thereby contributes to his global reception. This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance studies.
Introduction
SABIHA HUQ AND SRIDEEP MUKHERJEE
1 Postcolonial Theatre and Ibsen Productions in Pakistan: A Historical
Overview
ASGHAR NADEEM SYED
2 Intercultural Assimilation of Contraries in Postcolonial South Asia:
Fluctuating Movement of Ibsens Corpus
KAMALUDDIN NILU
3 Constructing a New Identity Space for Women in Post-Colony: Sambhu Mitras
Production of A Dolls House
AHMED AHSANUZZAMAN
4 Womens Movement in Pakistan: Tehrik-e-Niswans A Dolls House in Urdu
ISHRAT LINDBLAD
5 Nora and the Politics of Gender in the Postcolonial Performance Space in
Sri Lanka
KANCHUKA DHARMASIRI AND KATHIRESU RATHITHARAN
6 Has the Indian Doll Really Evolved?: A Dolls House on Decolonised Indian
Stage(s)
SRIDEEP MUKHERJEE
7 Middle-Class Liberal Values and the Bangladeshi National Imaginary: Ibsens
Ghosts Reconfigured
MANOSH CHOWDHURY
8 By Means of Ibsen: Theatre Amidst Rising Fanaticism in Post-Partition India
and Bangladesh
SABIHA HUQ
9 Kamaluddin Nilus Three Peers: Relocating Henrik Ibsens Peer Gynt in
South Asian Contemporaneity
IMRAN KAMAL
10 Unheard Voices and Refracted Essence: Bangla Adaptations of An Enemy of
the People and The Pillars of Society
TAPATI GUPTA
11 A Dolls House in Nepal: Rationalising the Appropriation of Putaliko Ghar
MENUKA GURUNG
12 Peer Ghani and Peechha Karti Parchhaiyan: Negotiating Adaptation and
Appropriation
ASTRI GHOSH
Index
Sabiha Huq is Professor of English at Khulna University, Bangladesh.
Srideep Mukherjee is Associate Professor of English at Netaji Subhas Open University, India.
