9788185753713 - Girish Karnads Plays: Performance and Critical Perspectives von Mukherjee, Tutun (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 376 Illus.

Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction of Text and Performance Girish Karnads Plays 2 In His Own Voice A Conversation with Girish Karnad 3 Playing upon the Possibilities Ma Nishada 1964 as "Agasayana" in the 1990s 4 Race and Gender in Yuyati 5 Tughlaq as an Experimenter 6Use and Abuse of History in Tughlaq VeenaNoble Dass 7 Historical Fictions and Postcolonial Representation Reading Tughlaq 8 Thirty Years with an Insane Man An Actor Reminisces 9 From the Horses Mouth A Study of Hayavadana 10 Hayavadana Model of Comlexity 11 Hayavadana A Study in Condensation 12 Effacing Hayavadana on the Masks of the Text 13 Myth and Reality in Hayavadana and Nagamandala 14 Quest for Completeness in Hayavadana and Nagamandala or their Subversion 15 Nagamandala as a FolkFake 16 Morality Play A Study of the Folk Paradigm in Karnads Play in the Light of the Naga Cult of Kerala 17 Performing Women Performing Body Adapting Nagamandala for Feminist Theatre 18 From Word to Act An Approach to Girish Karnad 19 Caste Consciousness and Karnad Analyzing Tale-danda 20 Tale-danda Text and Performance 21 "We have a Play to Perform Toda" Karnads Plays on Stage 1984-1994 22 Rituals as Self-Discovery in The Fire and the Rain 23 Politics of Power A Study of Gender and Caste in The Fire and the Rain 24 Woman as Director Re-Reading The Fire and the Rain 25 A Karnad Festival in Karnataka 26The Fire and the Rain on Celluloid 27 Negotiating Ideological Spaces Reading Bali The Sacrifice 28 Bali The Sacrifice and Dionysian Life Assertion 29 The Dreams of Tipus Sultan at Mysore 30 On the Wings of his Dreams Re-Viewing the Legends and History of Tipu Sultan 31 The Flickering play of Desire and memory Exploring Driven Snow 32 Problematizing Karnads Dramaturgy 33 The Splintered Self A Heap of Broken Images at Rangashankara 34 Flowers A Dramatic Monoluge Patriarchal Power and the Nature of Sacrifice Contributors Bibliography IndexThis volume both interrogates and celebrates the outstanding achievement of Girish Karnad as a gramatist engaged in reinventing the Indian theatre traditions over the past forty-five years Jargon-free and insightful the book probes Karnads inclusive dramaturgy manifested in his deft handling of various literary tropes and stage props All major plays of the distinguished dramatist are explored and revaluated in their larger socio-cultural historical gender caste and performance contexts preceded by a long and rewarding conversation with the playwright many of them supported by photographes of productions The thirty-two contributors to this definitve study belong to the top shelf of dramatheare critics and sahardayas from India and abroad 376 pp.