Theatre, Margins and Politics: An Introduction
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I India -- 1 When the Subaltern Speaks: Reading Three Plays of Rabindranath Tagore -- 2 "Where There Is Power, There Is Resistance": Negotiating Resistance and Representation in Dinabandhu Mitra's The Indigo Planting Mirror -- 3 Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilisation Through Denotified and Nomadic Tribe's Community Theatre -- 4 Embodying Dalit Resistance: Listen Shefali! and The Scapegoats -- 5 Touching at Tangents: Narrativity, Representation, and Agency in Saoli Mitra's Five Lords Yet None A Protector -- 6 Performing Resistance: Revisiting the Myth of Shoorpanakha and Shakuni in Poile Sengupta's Thus Spake Shoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni -- 7 The Mimesis of Desire in Mahesh Dattani's Plays: Sexual Politics in Performance -- II North America and the Caribbean -- 8 Cultural Resurgence and the Trickster in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters -- 9 A Search for One's Own Place: Forms of Spatiality and Marginalisation in A Raisin in the Sun and Other Dalit Narratives -- 10 Black Skin, Female Body: Oppression, Pathology of Suicide, and Subversive Recovery of Self in Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf -- 11 The Body Is a (New Materialist) State Apparatus: Agency and the Industrial Body in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly -- 12 Fall and Redemption: Colonial Marginalisation and Postcolonial Resistance in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain -- III Africa -- 13 "I am One of Your Children": Discordance and Transformation in Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa! -- 14 The Idea of the Margin and Its Vigorous Problematisation: A Discursive Study of Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests.