Brecht In India

Author : Dr. Prateek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000222494

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Brecht in India by Dr. Prateek Pdf

Brecht in India analyses the dramaturgy and theatrical practices of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht in post-independence India. The book explores how post-independence Indian drama is an instance of a cultural palimpsest, a site celebrating a dialogue between Western and Indian theatrical traditions, rather than a homogenous and isolated canon. Analysing the dissemination of a selection of Brecht’s plays in the Hindi belt between the 1960s and the 1990s, this study demonstrates that Brecht’s work provided aesthetic and ideological paradigms to modern Hindi playwrights, helping them develop and stage a national identity. The book also traces how the reception of Brecht was mediated in India, how it helped post-independence Indian playwrights formulate a political theatre, and how the dissemination of Brechtian aesthetics in India addressed the anxiety related to the stasis in Brechtian theatre in Europe. Tracking the dialogue between Brechtian aesthetics in India and Europe and a history of deliberate cultural resistance, Brecht in India is an invaluable resource for academics and students of theatre studies and theatre historiography, as well as scholars of post-colonial history and literature.

Author : Dr. Hemangi Bhagwat
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365038884

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POLITICAL THEARE IN INDIA: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MARATHI THEATRE AND BRECHTIAN INFLUENCE by Dr. Hemangi Bhagwat Pdf

Author : Tom Kuhn,David Barnett,Theodore F. Rippey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780985195656

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Das Brecht-Jahrbuch by Tom Kuhn,David Barnett,Theodore F. Rippey Pdf

The leading publication on Brecht, his work, and topics of interest to him; this annual volume documents the International Brecht Society's 2016 symposium, Recycling Brecht.

Author : Martin Christof-Füchsle,Razak Khan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110787184

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Nodes of Translation by Martin Christof-Füchsle,Razak Khan Pdf

The volume examines translation of key German texts into the modern Indian languages as well as translation from the vernacular languages of South Asia into German. Our key concerns are shifting historical contexts, concepts, and translation practices. Bringing an intellectual history dimension to translation studies, we explore the history of translation, translators, and sites of translation. The organization of the volume follows some key questions. Which texts were being translated? At what point or period in time did this happen? What were the motivations behind these translations? Topics covered range from thematic nodes or clusters, e.g., translations of Economics texts and ideas into Urdu, or the translation of Marx and Engels into Marathi, to personal endeavours, such as the first Hindi translation of Goethe’s Faust done by Bholanath Sharma in 1939. Missionary as well as Marxist activist translation work from Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu is included too. On the other hand, German translations of Tagore and Gandhi setting in shortly after 1912 are also examined. Also discussed are political strategies of publication of translations from modern Indian languages guiding the output of publishing houses in the GDR after 1949. Further included are the translator’s perspective and the contemporary translation and literary culture. What happens through the process of linguistic translation in the realm of cultural translation? What can a historical study of translation tell us about the history of Indo-German intellectual entanglements in the long twentieth century? The volume brings together multifaceted interdisciplinary research work from South Asian and German studies to answer some of these questions.

Author : Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781587296420

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Theatres of Independence by Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker Pdf

Theatres of Independence is the first comprehensive study of drama, theatre, and urban performance in post-independence India. Combining theatre history with theoretical analysis and literary interpretation, Aparna Dharwadker examines the unprecedented conditions for writing and performance that the experience of new nationhood created in a dozen major Indian languages and offers detailed discussions of the major plays, playwrights, directors, dramatic genres, and theories of drama that have made the contemporary Indian stage a vital part of postcolonial and world theatre.The first part of Dharwadker's study deals with the new dramatic canon that emerged after 1950 and the variety of ways in which plays are written, produced, translated, circulated, and received in a multi-lingual national culture. The second part traces the formation of significant postcolonial dramatic genres from their origins in myth, history, folk narrative, sociopolitical experience, and the intertextual connections between Indian, European, British, and American drama. The book's ten appendixes collect extensive documentation of the work of leading playwrights and directors, as well as a record of the contemporary multilingual performance histories of major Indian, Western, and non-Western plays from all periods and genres. Treating drama and theatre as strategically interrelated activities, the study makes post-independence Indian theatre visible as a multifaceted critical subject to scholars of modern drama, comparative theatre, theatre history, and the new national and postcolonial literatures.

Author : K. Balachandran
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Commonwealth literature (English)
ISBN : 8176257125

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Critical Essays on Commonwealth Literature by K. Balachandran Pdf

Contributed essays on works from Africa, Bangladesh, India, New Zealand, and the West Indies.

Author : Karan Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000769722

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Folk Theatres of North India by Karan Singh Pdf

This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre. In focusing on their historical, social and cultural imprints, it explores how these theatres challenge the linearity of cultural history and subvert cultural hegemony. The book looks at diverse forms of theatre such as svangs, nautanki, tamasha, all with conventions like open performative space, free mingling of spectators and actors, flexibility in roles and genres, etc. It discusses the genesis, history and the independent trajectory of folk theatres; folk theatre and Sanskrit dramaturgy; cinematic legacy; and theatrical space as performance besides investigating causes, inter-relations within socio-cultural factors, and the performance principles underlying them. It shows how these theatres effectively contest delimitation of human creative impulses (as revealed in classical Sanskrit theatre) from structuring as also of normative impulses of religion and culture, while amalgamating influences from Western theatre, newly-rising religious reform movements of 19th century India, tantra and Bhakti. It further highlights their ability to adapt and reinvent themselves in accordance with spatial and temporal transformations to constitute an important anthropological layer of Indian society. Comprehensive and empirically rich, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, theatre, film and performance studies, sociology, political studies, popular culture, and South Asian studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112042041035

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India-GDR. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joanne Miyang Cho,Eric Kurlander,Douglas T McGetchin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317931645

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Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India by Joanne Miyang Cho,Eric Kurlander,Douglas T McGetchin Pdf

Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German--Indian and South Asian Studies, the book looks at the history of German--Indian relations in the spheres of culture, politics, and intellectual life. Combining transnational, post-colonial, and comparative approaches, it includes the entire twentieth century, from the First World War and Weimar Republic to the Third Reich and Cold War era. The book first examines the ways in which nineteenth-century "Indomania" figured in the creation of both German national identity and modern German scholarship on the Orient, and it illustrates how German encounters with India in the Imperial era alternately destabilized and reinforced the orientalist, capitalist, and nationalist underpinnings of German modernity. Contributors discuss the full range of German responses to India, and South Asian perceptions of Germany against the backdrop of war and socio-political revolution, as well as the Third Reich's ambivalent perceptions of India in the context of racism, religion, and occultism. The book concludes by exploring German--Indian relations in the era of decolonization and the Cold War. Employing a diverse array of interdisciplinary approaches to understanding German--Indian encounters over the past two centuries, this book is of interest to students and scholars of Germany, India, Europe, and Asia, as well as history, political science, anthropology, philosophy, comparative literature, and religious studies.

Author : Vasudha Dalmia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199087952

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Poetics, Plays, and Performances by Vasudha Dalmia Pdf

This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, tracing its genealogies, and looking in particular at its appropriation of 'folk' theatre. Starting with the plays of Bharatendu Harishchandra in 1870s Banaras, the book moves forward to Jayshankar Prasad and Mohan Rakesh, landmark figures in the history of modern Indian drama. Dalmia then focuses on the intense urban interaction with folk theatre forms, their politicization in the 1940s and later again in the 1970s. Finally the book maps some of the routes taken by avant-garde women directors since the last decades of the twentieth century. Theatre students, critics, cultural historians, scholars of South Asian theatre, as well as general readers will find the book inspiring.

Author : Joerg Esleben,Rolf Rohmer,David Gethin John
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : PERFORMING ARTS
ISBN : 1487510896

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Fritz Bennewitz in India by Joerg Esleben,Rolf Rohmer,David Gethin John Pdf

"This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between 1970 and 1994. Joerg Esleben has gathered together many of Bennewitz's own writings, most published for the first time, in which he reflects on his production of plays by Bertolt Brecht, Shakespeare, Goethe, Chekhov, and Volker Braun. By translating these writings into English, the editors have provided unprecedented access to Bennewitz's thinking about intercultural work in India. This material is illuminated by explanatory annotations, contextualized commentary, and critical perspectives from Bennewitz's former colleagues in India and other leading scholars. Through its kaleidoscope of perspectives, Fritz Bennewitz in India offers a significant counter to dominant models of Western theatrical interculturalism."--

Author : Vikram Singh Thakur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789389812657

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Shakespeare and Indian Theatre by Vikram Singh Thakur Pdf

This book looks at adaptations, translations and performance of Shakespeare's productions in India from the mid-18th century, when British officers in India staged Shakespeare's plays along with other English playwrights for entertainment, through various Indian adaptations of his plays during the colonial period to post-Independence period. It studies Shakespeare in Bengali and Parsi theatre at length. Other theatre traditions, such as Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi, have been included. The book dwells on the fascinating story of the languages of India that have absorbed Shakespeare's work and have transformed the original educated Indian's Shakespeare into the popular Shakespeare practice of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the unique urban-folkish tradition in postcolonial India.

Author : Joerg Esleben
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487510909

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Fritz Bennewitz in India by Joerg Esleben Pdf

This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between 1970 and 1994. Joerg Esleben has gathered together many of Bennewitz’ own writings, most published for the first time, in which he reflects on his production of plays by Bertolt Brecht, Shakespeare, Goethe, Chekhov, and Volker Braun. By translating these writings into English, the editors have provided unprecedented access to Bennewitz’ thinking about intercultural work in India. This material is illuminated by explanatory annotations, contextualized commentary, and critical perspectives from Bennewitz’s former colleagues in India and other leading scholars. Through its kaleidoscope of perspectives, Fritz Bennewitz in India offers a significant counter to dominant models of Western theatrical interculturalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Missions
ISBN : OXFORD:555007750

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India's Women by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015067476344

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Brecht Jahrbuch by Anonim Pdf