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Author: Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231213851
ISBN 10: 0231213859
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 05 August 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Informed by deep scholarship across a range of different fields, Dharwadker’s book presents an innovative and erudite theory of Indian modernism as an influential literary formation with its own distinctive features. Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India represents an important contribution to the increasing focus on Indian modernism within postcolonial and world literature studies. -- Neelam Srivastava, professor of postcolonial and world literature, Newcastle University In this deeply researched book, Dharwadker takes the Indian theater as her case study to reconsider the modernist paradigm of cosmopolitanism. Tracing an intranational network of interlingual exchange, she shows how modern drama in India gave voice to a multilingual modernism that exceeded its postcolonial condition by asserting a polyvocal aesthetic and cultural identity from page to stage to reception. -- Julia A. Walker, professor of English and drama, Washington University in St. Louis
Informed by deep scholarship across a range of different fields, Dharwadker’s book presents an innovative and erudite theory of Indian modernism as an influential literary formation, with its own distinctive features. Cosmo-Modernism and Theater in India represents an important contribution to the increasing focus on Indian modernism within postcolonial and world literature studies. -- Neelam Srivastava, Professor of Postcolonial and World Literature, Newcastle University In this deeply researched book, Dharwadker takes the Indian theater as her case study to reconsider the modernist paradigm of cosmopolitanism. Tracing an intra-national network of interlingual exchange, she shows how modern drama in India gave voice to a multilingual modernism that exceeded its postcolonial condition by asserting a polyvocal aesthetic and cultural identity from page to stage to reception. -- Julia A. Walker, professor of English and drama, Washington University in St. Louis
Author Information
Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker is professor of English and interdisciplinary theater studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her books include Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India Since 1947 (2005) and A Poetics of Modernity: Indian Theatre Theory, 1850 to the Present (2019), both of which received the biannual Joe A. Callaway Prize for the best book on theater.
