Ibsen in the Decolonised South Asian Theatre

This book maps South Asian theatre productions that have contextualised Ibsen's plays to underscore the emergent challenges of postcolonial nation formation.

Autorentext

Sabiha Huq is Professor of English at Khulna University, Bangladesh.

Srideep Mukherjee is Associate Professor of English at Netaji Subhas Open University, India.

Inhalt
** Introduction**

SABIHA HUQ AND SRIDEEP MUKHERJEE ** 1 Postcolonial Theatre and Ibsen Productions in Pakistan: A Historical Overview**

ASGHAR NADEEM SYED ** 2 Intercultural Assimilation of Contraries in Postcolonial South Asia: Fluctuating Movement of Ibsen's Corpus**

KAMALUDDIN NILU ** 3 Constructing a New Identity Space for Women in Post-Colony: Sambhu Mitra's Production of A Doll's House**

AHMED AHSANUZZAMAN ** 4 Women's Movement in Pakistan: Tehrik-e-Niswan's A Doll's House in Urdu**

ISHRAT LINDBLAD ** 5 Nora and the Politics of Gender in the Postcolonial Performance Space in Sri Lanka**

KANCHUKA DHARMASIRI AND KATHIRESU RATHITHARAN ** 6 Has the Indian "Doll" Really Evolved?: A Doll's House on Decolonised Indian Stage(s)**

SRIDEEP MUKHERJEE ** 7 Middle-Class Liberal Values and the Bangladeshi National Imaginary: Ibsen's Ghosts Reconfigured

MANOSH CHOWDHURY ** 8 By Means of Ibsen: Theatre Amidst Rising Fanaticism in Post-Partition India and Bangladesh**

SABIHA HUQ ** 9 Kamaluddin Nilu's Three "Peers": Relocating Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt in South Asian Contemporaneity**

IMRAN KAMAL ** 10 Unheard Voices and Refracted Essence: Bangla Adaptations of An Enemy of the People and The Pillars of Society**

TAPATI GUPTA ** 11 A Doll's House in Nepal: Rationalising the Appropriation of Putaliko Ghar**

MENUKA GURUNG ** 12 Peer Ghani and Peechha Karti Parchhaiyan: Negotiating Adaptation and Appropriation**

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