Women and Indian Shakespeares
Thea Buckley · Mark Thornton Burnett · Sangeeta Datta · Rosa García-Periago
Jun 2022 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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Women and Indian Shakespeares explores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in India. Women's engagements encompass the full range of media, from translation to cinematic adaptation and from early colonial performance to contemporary theatrical experiment. Simultaneously, Women and Indian Shakespeares makes visible the ways in which women are figured in various representational registers as resistant agents, martial seductresses, redemptive daughters, victims of caste discrimination, conflicted spaces and global citizens. In so doing, the collection reorients existing lines of investigation, extends the disciplinary field, brings into visibility still occluded subjects and opens up radical readings. More broadly, the collection identifies how, in Indian Shakespeares on page, stage and screen, women increasingly possess the ability to shape alternative futures across patriarchal and societal barriers of race, caste, religion and class.
In repeated iterations, the collection turns our attention to localized modes of adaptation that enable opportunities for women while celebrating Shakespeare's gendered interactions in India's rapidly changing, and increasingly globalized, cultural, economic and political environment. In the contributions, we see a transformed Shakespeare, a playwright who appears differently when seen through the gendered eyes of a new Indian, diasporic and global generation of critics, historians, archivists, practitioners and directors. Radically imagining Indian Shakespeares with women at the centre, Women and Indian Shakespeares interweaves history, regional geography/regionality, language and the present day to establish a record of women as creators and adapters of Shakespeare in Indian contexts.
In repeated iterations, the collection turns our attention to localized modes of adaptation that enable opportunities for women while celebrating Shakespeare's gendered interactions in India's rapidly changing, and increasingly globalized, cultural, economic and political environment. In the contributions, we see a transformed Shakespeare, a playwright who appears differently when seen through the gendered eyes of a new Indian, diasporic and global generation of critics, historians, archivists, practitioners and directors. Radically imagining Indian Shakespeares with women at the centre, Women and Indian Shakespeares interweaves history, regional geography/regionality, language and the present day to establish a record of women as creators and adapters of Shakespeare in Indian contexts.
About the author
Thea Buckley is a Research Assistant at Queen's University Belfast, UK.
Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK.
Sangeeta Datta is a writer, director, independent filmmaker and cultural commentator, India/UK. She is Director of Baithak, a non-profits arts company, and Stormglass Productions.
Rosa García-Periago is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Murcia, Spain.
Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK.
Sangeeta Datta is a writer, director, independent filmmaker and cultural commentator, India/UK. She is Director of Baithak, a non-profits arts company, and Stormglass Productions.
Rosa García-Periago is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Murcia, Spain.
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