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BL
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628724
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| Main Entry
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Batra, Kanika,1972-
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| Title & Author
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Feminist visions and queer futures in postcolonial drama : : community, kinship, and citizenship /\ Kanika Batra
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, 2011
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| Series Statement
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ;; 17
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xv, 178 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780415875912
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: 0415875919
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Jamaica. Making citizens: community, kinship, and the national imaginary in Dennis Scott's An echo in the bone (1974) and Dog (1978) -- We shouldn't shame to talk: postcolonial sexual citizenship in Sistren Theatre Collective's Bellywoman Banagarang and QPH -- India. A people's theatre from Delhi in alliance with the women's movement -- Queering the subaltern: postcolonial performativity in Mahesh Dattani's Seven steps around the fire and Mahasweta Devi and Usha Ganguli's Rudali -- Nigeria. Resistant citizenship: reading feminist praxis and democratic renewal in Nigeria through Femi Osofisan's Morountodun -- Daughters who know the languages of power: community, sexuality, and postcolonial development in Tess Onwueme's Tell it to women -- Epilogue
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Feminist drama-- History and criticism
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Feminism and theater
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Feminist theater-- Jamaica
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Feminist theater-- India
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Feminist theater-- Nigeria
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Feminism in literature
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Women in literature
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Sex role in literature
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Postcolonialism-- Commonwealth countries
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| Dewey Classification
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792.082
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| LC Classification
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PN1590.W64B38 2011
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