Aparna Dharwadker is associate professor of theatre and drama at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her work on contemporary Indian theatre and comparative postcolonial theatres has appeared in such journals as PMLA, Modern Drama, New Theatre Quarterly, Theatre Journal, Theatre India, and Theatre Research International. She has held research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Folger Library, and the Newberry Library, among others.
Conceptually robust, elegantly nuanced in both theoretical insights
and historical scrutiny, Theatres of Independence is also a model
of eloquent close reading. Post-independence India is the book's
subject but Dharwadker has produced profoundly suggestive
frameworks for analyzing postcolonial theatre and drama-- and their
multivalent contexts!--in general. --Tejumola Olaniyan, author of
Scars of Conquest / Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural
Identities in African, African American and Caribbean Drama"
This wide-ranging and authoritative study ushers in a vital new era
in the study of the drama and theatre of India. Dharwadker's
painstakingly researched and brilliantly theorized identification
of a post-independence dramatic canon on the subcontinent is an
extraordinary contribution to postcolonial literary and performance
theory and will shape that field in the years ahead. --Una
Chaudhuri, professor of English and drama, New York University"
"This wide-ranging and authoritative study ushers in a vital new
era in the study of the drama and theatre of India. Dharwadker's
painstakingly researched and brilliantly theorized identification
of a post-independence dramatic canon on the subcontinent is an
extraordinary contribution to postcolonial literary and performance
theory and will shape that field in the years ahead."--Una
Chaudhuri, professor of English and drama, New York University
"Conceptually robust, elegantly nuanced in both theoretical
insights and historical scrutiny, Theatres of Independence is also
a model of eloquent close reading. Post-independence India is the
book's subject but Dharwadker has produced profoundly suggestive
frameworks for analyzing postcolonial theatre and drama-- and their
multivalent contexts!--in general."--Tejumola Olaniyan, author of
Scars of Conquest / Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural
Identities in African, African American and Caribbean Drama
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