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A scholarly edition that brings together theoretically significant writing on theatre by Indian theatre practitioners of the modern period, in English and in English translation from nine other languages.
About the author
Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker is Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of 'Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India Since 1947' (2005), which won the Joe A. Callaway Prize in 2006. She has also contributed critical introductions to the three volumes of Girish Karnad's Collected Plays (2005-2017), and co-translated Mohan Rakesh's classic modernist play, 'Ashadh ka ek din', as 'One Day in the Season of Rain' (2015). Aparna's essays and articles have appeared in numerous journals and collections in north America, Britain, and India. She is married to the scholar, poet, and translator Vinay Dharwadker, and has two children-Aneesha, an architect, and Sachin, a filmmaker.
Summary
A scholarly edition that brings together theoretically significant writing on theatre by Indian theatre practitioners of the modern period, in English and in English translation from nine other languages.
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Dharwadker's seventy-page critical introduction to this anthology is essential reading not just for scholars of Indian theatre, but for postcolonial scholars more broadly for precisely this call. She achieves a remarkably concise and lucid overview of the different dimensions of modern Indian theatre theory without resorting to a reductive chronological historical trajectory, managing a rare balance between complex concepts and comprehensible expression.
