Gender, Religion, and Modern Hindi Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender, Religion, and Modern Hindi Drama write by Diana Dimitrova. This book was released on 2008-03-19. Gender, Religion, and Modern Hindi Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diana Dimitrova studies the representation of gender and religion in Hindi drama from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1960s - the period when urban proscenium Hindi theatre, which originated under Western influence, matured and thrived. Her focus is on how different religious and mythological models pertaining to women have been reworked in Hindi drama and whether the seven representative dramatists discussed in this book present conservative or liberating Hindu images of the feminine. She examines how the intersections of gender, religion, and ideology account for the creation of the canon of modern Hindi drama, specifically the assertion of a conservative interpretation of orthodox Hindu images of the feminine as well as the exclusion of dramatists who introduce innovative liberating images of the feminine. The overt reason for the negative attitude toward this innovative representation of gender is that it is perceived as "Western" and thus "non-Indian." By contrast, the author's analysis of Hindu mythology, religion, and theatre history reveals that the new interpretation of gender is deeply embedded in Hindu tradition and is thus both Hindu Indian and modernist Western in character.
Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays
Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays write by Diana Dimitrova. This book was released on 2022-10-15. Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It aims at studying questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the 19th- and 20th- centuries and the interplay of poetics and politics, as revealed in the work of several influential playwrights. The book explores questions related to the ways in which seven representative playwrights imagine India and its identity and the ways, in which this concept is revealed in the "narratives of the nation", its postcolonial contentions and the politics of identity, as revealed in the production of various cultural discourses. The chapters explore various aspects of the ongoing process of constructing and narrating culture, gender, the nation and identity. There has been no monograph on the questions of cultural identity in Hindi drama. This is a pioneering project and a desideratum in the field of Hindi literature, South Asian Studies, and broadly, in the study of theatre of India and of South Asian cultures and literatures.
The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film
The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film write by Diana Dimitrova. This book was released on 2014-01-10. The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book introduces the term "otherism" and looks at the discourse of otherism and the issue of otherness in South Asian religion, literature and film. It examines cultural questions related to the human condition of being the "other," of the process of "othering" and of the representation of "otherness" and its religious, cultural and ideological implications. The book applies the perspectives of ideological criticism, theories of hybridity, orientalism, nationalism, and gender and queer studies to gain new insights into the literature, film and culture of South Asia. It looks at the different ways of interpreting "otherness" today. The book goes on to analyze the ideological implications of the creation of "otherness" with regard to religious and cultural identity and the legitimation of power, as well as how the representation of "otherness" reflects the power structures of contemporary societies in South Asia. Offering a well-thought-out reflection on important cultural questions as well as a deep insight into the study of religion and "otherness" in South Asian literature and film, this book is a pioneering project that is of interest to scholars of South Asian Studies and South Asian religions, literatures and cultures.
Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia
Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia write by Diana Dimitrova. This book was released on 2010-02-15. Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative, interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars based in Europe and the United States offers stimulating approaches to the role played by religion in present-day South Asia.
Hinduism and Hindi Theater
Hinduism and Hindi Theater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hinduism and Hindi Theater write by Diana Dimitrova. This book was released on 2016-08-18. Hinduism and Hindi Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960. It discusses representative works of seven influential playwrights and looks into the ways they have imagined and re-imagined Hindu traditions. Diana Dimitrova examines the intersections of Hinduism and Hindi theatre, emphasizing the important role that both myth and discourse play in the representation of Hindu traditions in the works of Bharatendu Harishcandra, Jayshankar Prasad, Lakshminarayan Mishra, Jagdishcandra Mathur, Bhuvaneshvar, Upendranath Ashk, and Mohan Rakesh. Dimitrova’a analysis suggests either a traditionalist or a more modernist stance toward religious issues. She emphasizes the absence of Hindi-speaking authors who deal with issues implicit to the Muslim or Sikh or Jain, etc. traditions. This prompts her to suggest that Hindi theatre of the period 1880-1960, as represented in the works of the seven dramatists discussed, should be seen as truly ‘Hindu-Hindi’ theatre.
