This book examines diverse modes of dramatic representation and performance--myth, folklore, ritual, and history, including everyday conversation--used by women to intervene in and challenge the agenda of social movements, which conceptualized women's emancipation but imagined their role as being primarily at the core of family life. INDICE: Introduction; 1.: Constructing the Theatre Actress; 2.: Argumentative Women in Domestic Spaces: The Plays of Rasheed Jahan and Ismat Chughtai; 4.: From Social Reform to Social Protest: Gender and Caste Politics in KusumKumar's 'Listen Shefali' (Suno Shefali); 5.: The Courtesan as 'Virangana' in Contemporary Historical Drama: Tripurari Sharma's San Sattavan ka Qissa: Azizum Nisa; Epilogue: 'A Window into an Elegant and Colourful, but Almost Forgotten World'; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-806693-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 232
- Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés