Women and Indian Shakespeares
Professor Mark Thornton Burnett editor Sangeeta Datta editor Thea Buckley editor Rosa García-Periago editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:14th Jul '22
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This collection of essays explores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in India from the 18thC to the present. Traversing translation, cinematic adaptation, early colonial performance and contemporary theatrical experiment, it uncovers a unique history of women as creators of Shakespeare.
Women and Indian Shakespeares explores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in India. Women’s engagements encompass the full range of media, from translation to cinematic adaptation and from early colonial performance to contemporary theatrical experiment. Simultaneously, Women and Indian Shakespeares makes visible the ways in which women are figured in various representational registers as resistant agents, martial seductresses, redemptive daughters, victims of caste discrimination, conflicted spaces and global citizens. In so doing, the collection reorients existing lines of investigation, extends the disciplinary field, brings into visibility still occluded subjects and opens up radical readings. More broadly, the collection identifies how, in Indian Shakespeares on page, stage and screen, women increasingly possess the ability to shape alternative futures across patriarchal and societal barriers of race, caste, religion and class.
In repeated iterations, the collection turns our attention to localized modes of adaptation that enable opportunities for women while celebrating Shakespeare’s gendered interactions in India’s rapidly changing, and increasingly globalized, cultural, economic and political environment. In the contributions, we see a transformed Shakespeare, a playwright who appears differently when seen through the gendered eyes of a new Indian, diasporic and global generation of critics, historians, archivists, practitioners and directors. Radically imagining Indian Shakespeares with women at the centre, Women and Indian Shakespeares interweaves history, regional geography/regionality, language and the present day to establish a record of women as creators and adapters of Shakespeare in Indian contexts.
This collection fills a critical gap in the burgeoning shelves of Shakespeare studies in India and is of immense value not only from a gendered or feminist perspective but also from a more general perspective of understanding modernity in India … An important addition to the shelf of studies on Shakespeare in India. * Indian Journal of Gender Studies *
ISBN: 9781350234321
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320 pages