Overview

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.

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Author:   Sabiha Huq ,  Srideep Mukherjee
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781032182087

ISBN 10:   1032182083
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   14 April 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Ibsen’s Corpus KAMALUDDIN NILU 3 Constructing a New Identity Space for Women in Post-Colony: Sambhu Mitra’s Production of A Doll’s House AHMED AHSANUZZAMAN 4 Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Tehrik-e-Niswan’s A Doll’s 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 Doll’s House on Decolonised Indian Stage(s) SRIDEEP MUKHERJEE 7 Middle-Class Liberal Values and the Bangladeshi National Imaginary: Ibsen’s Ghosts Reconfigured MANOSH CHOWDHURY 8 By Means of Ibsen: Theatre Amidst Rising Fanaticism in Post-Partition India and Bangladesh SABIHA HUQ 9 Kamaluddin Nilu’s Three “Peers”: Relocating Henrik Ibsen’s 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 Doll’s 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

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Sabiha Huq is Professor of English at Khulna University, Bangladesh. Srideep Mukherjee is Associate Professor of English at Netaji Subhas Open University, India.

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