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Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. A<i>cts of Authority/Acts of Resistance</i> seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice of nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. <p>Nandi Bhatia argues that Indian theater was a significant force in the struggle against oppressive colonial and postcolonial structures, as it sought to undo various schemes of political and cultural power through its engagement with subjects derived from mythology, history, and available colonial models such as Shakespeare. Bhatia's attention to local histories within a postcolonial framework places performance in a global and transcultural context. Drawing connections between art and politics, between performance and everyday experience, Bhatia shows how performance often intervened in political debates and even changed the course of politics.</p> <p>One of the first Western studies of Indian theater to link the aesthetics and the politics of that theater, <i>Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance</i> combines in-depth archival r

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Author

Nandi Bhatia

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282591448

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Performing Arts, Science